Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To leap about playfully; frolic.
- n. A playful skipping or frolicking about.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To skip about in sport; caper in frolic, like children or lambs; frisk carelessly or heedlessly.
- Synonyms To frolic, romp, caper.
- n. A skipping, leaping, or frisking about; a spring, leap, skip, or jump, as in frolic or sport.
Wiktionary
- v. To move about playfully; to frolic.
- v. to do a forward roll
- n. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.
- n. A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
WordNet 3.0
- n. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- v. play boisterously
Etymologies
- 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.
Examples
“Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together.”
“May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always.”
“And nobody can resist the EcoSpheres, fully contained self-sustaining ecosystems in which tiny shrimp gambol among seaweed in a dome the size of a paperweight.”
“Elsewhere there is pealing for peeling ; bite for bight ; straights for straits ; gamble for gambol ; canon for cannon .”
“I love that natural feel and flow where you can gambol over space and time.”
“The final day was a 20-mile gambol through a southern spur of the Brooks Range, the Blue Cloud Mountains.”
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“To gambol freely across the wastelands of an American city, as a local politician!”
“But he makes no comment on the pronunciation of gambol, while saying it must not be confused with gamble, and we also find”
“When he follows a pop group in a variety show, the curtain rises to reveal an audience of two: the adoring fans have poured out to mob the group of singers, who gambol around with self-importance and foppishness.”
“The beautifully shot " Sans Supervision " plays both ends of the title ' s implications as a little girl is left to her own devices when her parents go off on a romantic gambol during an apparent family outing to a wooded park land.”
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