gambol

• Of course, exactly who is tripping who depends on the strength and cunning of the gambit itself.A similar etymology to gambit can be found in the rather jolly gambol, meaning to jump around playfully, which also derived from the Italian gamba, and suggests exactly how I will be frolicking to the cinema this weekend.Deborah SmithBookmark this post
• 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
• Attempting such a perilous gambol, perhaps, as correcting Shakspeare To {overleap, overreach, overshoot} himself are merely, to {leap, reach, shoot}, over or beyond the mark himself intended Q Bloomsbury P.S.--MR. ARROWSMITH reminds us of the old saw, that "great wits jump." —  Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
• So fair she was that for her dear sake fauns and satyrs forgot to gambol, and sat in the green woods in thoughtful stillness, that they might see her as she passed. —  A Book of Myths
• Henry anticipated what Ben Jonson discovered in a later age, that Christmas is near And neither good cheer Mirth, fooling, nor wit Nor any least fit Of gambol or sport Will come at the Court If there be no money And so rather than leave Christmas unobserved the poor king "borrowed his expenses." —  Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries

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