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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To leap about playfully; frolic.
  2. n. A playful skipping or frolicking about.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A skipping, leaping, or frisking about; a spring, leap, skip, or jump, as in frolic or sport.
  2. To skip about in sport; caper in frolic, like children or lambs; frisk carelessly or heedlessly.
  3. Synonyms To frolic, romp, caper.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To move about playfully; to frolic.
  2. v. UK, regional to do a forward roll
  3. n. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
  4. n. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
  2. v. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
  2. v. play boisterously

Etymologies

  1. Alteration of French gambade, horse's jump, from Old French, perhaps from Old Italian gambata, from gamba, leg, from Late Latin, hoof, perhaps from Greek kampē, bend. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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