Meaning

(intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic..

Definitions by Sense

1. (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
2. (British, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.
3. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
4. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

Example Sentences

The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.

At our old pastimes in the hall ⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence ⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all.

[…] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.

And, in very truth, run and leap he did, gambolling wildly down the stretch of lawn outside the long window.

In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.

[The whales] quite enjoyed themselves gamboling freely among the waves in the sunshine.

Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.

They were in the white wood / Gamboling out to picnic

Word Forms

• gambols
• gamboling
• gambolling
• gamboled
• gambolled

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Use gambol when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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