gambol

• The timorous hare and sportive squirrel gambol round me like Adam in Paradise, before he had an Eve; but I think he did not use to read Virgil, as I commonly do there. —  Selected English Letters
• In the city, however, there is no escape from the crushing weight of prejudice, to ramble over fields of your own cultivation; to forget your sorrows in the refreshing air that waves the loaded branches of an orchard of your own planting; nor to solace yourself with a gambol over the green meadow with your little ones. —  Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman
• Coming where it does, the joke inserted about the Board of Agriculture is rather like the gambol of a rhinoceros trying to imitate the curvettings of a thoroughbred horse. —  Sir Walter Scott
• "As to the part of the old woman that will unavoidably be lost due to the operation--he shrugged-"I've studied the matter in depth and see no way around it. —  For Love of Mother-Not
• Pun on "gambol." —  The Journal to Stella

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