'lively kid' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a young person who is full of energy and enthusiasm. For example, "The birthday party was a huge success thanks to the lively kid who kept everyone entertained."
She was a tomboy, a lively kid with a passion for learning.
Mom had her hands full, trying to keep a lively kid in a low-activity life style, and keeping his friends away.
When so many adult critics were carrying on about the 'incredible originality' of the first Harry Potter book, I read it to find out what the fuss was about, and remained somewhat puzzled; it seemed a lively kid's fantasy crossed with a "school novel", good fare for its age group, but stylistically ordinary, imaginatively derivative, and ethically rather mean-spirited".
But the sides are very flimsy - those with especially lively kids can expect a flooded garden.
I was briefly introduced to them and they were really happy, lively kids.
They are not the liveliest kids, the three siblings crammed into the back seat of a Rambler in Paula Vogel's "Long Christmas Ride Home".
"She was a really lively, really fun kid with a great spirit of adventure.
Hardwicke noticed that her young friend wasn't "that fun, lively, warm, crazy kid any more", but had turned into a brattish adolescent who couldn't even bear to be in the room with her parents.
She was lively with the kids and we were making love every night.
As far as he was concerned, Japan's youngest generation lovely, lively, cherry-cheeked kids with bowlegs and bristling bangs — was always welcome to lark around the "Sayonara" sets.
The fact remains, though, that in an era of Chinese dominance, Britain has a self-made bona fide diving heavyweight, a lively, likeable pop-kid of the high board who has now won exactly 50% of Britain's Olympic diving medals since the 1920s.
