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  • verb UK Simple past tense and past participle of gambol.

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Examples

  • I was over in Cong 3 Summers ago: hadn't changed much from the movie, although I believe they were looking to build a golf course over where Mary Kate Danaher 'gambolled' with her sheep!

    Crimefest IV: How to make a classic movie for £7,000 Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • He never played and gambolled about with the other puppies of the camp.

    The Bondage 2010

  • Troy by those countless oars, what time ye led the Nereids 'dance, where the dolphin music-loving rolled and gambolled round your dusky prows, escorting Achilles, nimble son of Thetis, when he went with Agamemnon to the banks of Trojan Simois;

    Electra 2008

  • Troy by those countless oars, what time ye led the Nereids 'dance, where the dolphin music-loving rolled and gambolled round your dusky prows, escorting Achilles, nimble son of Thetis, when he went with Agamemnon to the banks of Trojan Simois;

    Electra 2008

  • And all the apes danced and gambolled before them, what while the eaters sat at meat; which when Sayf al-Muluk saw, he marvelled at them and forgot that which had befallen him of sufferings. —

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In a word, she gambolled with the freedom of a young lioness, who is unconscious of the weight of her own paws when laid on those whom she sports with.

    The Talisman 2008

  • Richmond Green v odd - full of forgive me, but they were braying yuppies shouting "Horatio!" and "Pandora!" and so forth after their children as said children gambolled happily in other families' picnics, took off with other families' footballs, chased other families' dogs, etc.

    V quickly, Monday evening... Imogen 2008

  • Some few of the late company who had gambolled in the tower, remained there, spinning over and over a little longer; but these became at every turn more faint, and few, and feeble, and soon went the way of the rest.

    The Chimes 2007

  • A herd of white unicorns gambolled amongst the cultivated flowers, swirling around the bases of the lazily spinning windmills.

    The Strife Ray zornhau 2005

  • He gambolled in wildly and behind him twenty others perhaps, mostly

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

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