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Gamboled

Gambol \Gam"bol\ v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gamboled, or Gambolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Gamboling or Gambolling.] To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

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gamboled

alt. (context US English) (en-past of: gambol) vb. (context US English) (en-past of: gambol)

Usage examples of "gamboled".

She was wearing her favorite pajamas, the ones across which cartoon characters gamboled, even though they were now about two sizes too small for her.

THE TWO-LEGS WINTROW STOOD ON THE ship's deck and looked down at the serpents who gamboled alongside in the moonlight.

The dog gamboled gayly about him, as they walked, and tried to entice him into a romp.

Bobby Burns gamboled along at his side, leaping high in the air in an effort to lick Brice's face, setting the night astir with a fanfare of joyous barking, imperiling Gavin's every step with his whisking body, and in short conducting himself as does the average high-strung collie whose master breaks into a run.

In and out of the trees it gamboled, the long tail flouncing high—everywhere they turned the horse frisked in their way, its spell drawing its net over them, until in desperation Imrhien brandished her ashen staff in both hands, right before its eyes.

Close at hand, naked little folk no more than twelve inches high, thin and pale as the sickle moon, dived off lily pads and gamboled in the water.