dalliance

noun4

1. •
   Playful flirtation; amorous play.

   • As in the season of rutting (an uncouth phrase, by which the vulgar denote that gentle dalliance, which in the well-wooded forest of Hampshire, passes between lovers of the ferine kind), — 1749
2. •
   A sexual relationship, not serious but often illicit.
3. •
   An episode of dabbling.
4. •
   A wasting of time in idleness or trifles.

   • He had passed the officer now. There was no necessity for dalliance. He pressed the accelerator down a trifle. — 1914