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- IPA: /ˈgæmbɒl/
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to Gambol (third-person singular simple present gambols, present participle (UK) gambolling or (US) gamboling, simple past and past participle (UK) gambolled or (US) gamboled)
- (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
- 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)
- The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.
- 1907: Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse, page 160
- […] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.
- 1944: George Orwell, Animal Farm, page 15
- In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
- 1948, F. H. Lyon, Chapter 5, Kon-Tiki, translation of original by Thor Heyerdahl, ISBN 1-56849-010-0, page 143:
- [The whales] quite enjoyed themselves gamboling freely among the waves in the sunshine.
- 1995: Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: or a Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer, page 286 (ISBN 0553380966)
- Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.
- 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)
- (British, regional) to do a forward roll
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Gambol ({{{1}}})
- An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
- 1843: Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug, page 10
- When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.
- 1843: Edgar Allen Poe, The Gold Bug, page 10
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