Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To leap about playfully; frolic.
- noun A playful skipping or frolicking about.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A skipping, leaping, or frisking about; a spring, leap, skip, or jump, as in frolic or sport.
- To skip about in sport; caper in frolic, like children or lambs; frisk carelessly or heedlessly.
- Synonyms To frolic, romp, caper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
- intransitive verb To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To move about playfully; to
frolic . - verb UK, regional to do a
forward roll - noun An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
- noun An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
- verb play boisterously
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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."
America To-day, Observations and Reflections William Archer 1890
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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.
In the 500-channel universe, we're definitely lost in space Tom Shales 2010
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Elsewhere there is pealing for peeling ; bite for bight ; straights for straits ; gamble for gambol ; canon for cannon .
Coastal Disturbances Alexandra Mullen 2011
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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.
First Love & Other Obsessions Gary Percesepe 2011
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The final day was a 20-mile gambol through a southern spur of the Brooks Range, the Blue Cloud Mountains.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
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May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always.
Will Durst: Summer: Day One Will Durst 2011
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May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always.
Will Durst: Summer: Day One Will Durst 2011
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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.
Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011
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May you frolic and cavort and gambol and caper in a madcap series of wacky zany antics that are fondly remembered always.
Will Durst: Summer: Day One Will Durst 2011
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The final day was a 20-mile gambol through a southern spur of the Brooks Range, the Blue Cloud Mountains.
Richard Bangs: So, You Think That's Cold? Richard Bangs 2011
brtom commented on the word gambol
"And Gerty, wrapt in thought, scarce saw or heard her companions or the twins at their boyish gambols ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 13
January 14, 2007
reesetee commented on the word gambol
A word fraught with potentially hilarious misunderstandings. ;-)
February 20, 2007
darqueau commented on the word gambol
indeed
July 7, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word gambol
Ha!
July 17, 2008