gambol
IPA: gɑmbˈoʊɫ
noun
- An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
- An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
verb
- (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
- (Britain, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.
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Examples of "gambol" in Sentences
- The pup is gamboling the field.
- The puppy is gamboling the field.
- Gamble on the Strip, then gambol in the desert.
- He chose to wilfully gambol from the discussion.
- You should give people back the right to gambol.
- He would gambol too close to the edge of the fiscal cliff.
- McCasland explains as she and her students gambol to the tune.
- Our three critters gambol and dance about the raft as it bobs along.
- As an Aberdonian, just be thankful a vengeful sheep didn't gambol past.
- A host of arthritic knees will once again be happy for the opportunity to gambol along.
- The final day was a 20-mile gambol through a southern spur of the Brooks Range, the Blue Cloud Mountains.
- Elsewhere there is pealing for peeling ; bite for bight ; straights for straits ; gamble for gambol ; canon for cannon .
- May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always.
- It's supposedly, theoretically, marvelous to gambol about in a "something-for-everyone" culture where all tastes are catered to by one medium or many.
- 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.
- An outraged parent must have complained about our gambol through Times Square, because the next year we were bused to the Upper West Side of Manhattan and taken to the Museum of Natural History.
- His inexhaustible gift of lightning repartee I saw illustrated on another occasion, when he presided at the midnight "gambol" of a Bohemian club, at which it needed the utmost tact and presence of mind to "ride the whirlwind and direct the storm."
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