Crossword clues for gambol
gambol
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gambol \Gam"bol\, n. [OE. gambolde, gambaulde, F. gambade,
gambol, fr. It. gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F.
jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L. gamba, hoof or perh. joint:
cf. Gr. ? a binding, winding, W., Ir. & Gael. cam crooked;
perhaps akin to E. chamber: cf.F. gambiller to kick about.
Cf. Jamb, n., Gammon ham, Gambadoes.]
A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive
prank.
--Dryden.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"frolic, merrymaking," 1590s, earlier gambolde "a skipping, a leap or spring" (1510s), from Middle French gambade (15c.), from Late Latin gamba "horse's hock or leg," from Greek kampe "a bending" (on notion of "a joint"), from PIE *kamp- "to bend" (see campus). Ending altered perhaps by confusion with formerly common ending -aud, -ald (as in ribald).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An instance of running or skipping about playfully. 2 An instance of more general frisking or frolicking. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To move about playfully; to frolic. 2 (context British West Midlands English) to do a forward roll
WordNet
n. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly" [syn: play, frolic, romp, caper]
v. play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark, disport, sport, cavort, frisk, romp, run around, lark about]
[also: gambolling, gambolled]
Usage examples of "gambol".
April gambolled in like a lamb this year, and taking a cue from his sprightly kick-up-your-heels mood, the Spring season was all aflutter with the gay bustle of arrivals and departures.
When Marge arrived tonight, she would watch over Dunlap while the one-armed man and the son in need of a father would ride out to check the steers, and in the meantime, Slaughter leaned back, smiling, as the setting sun cast an alpenglow on Lucas who rode straight and strong, and a colt veered from its mother, and they gamboled in the sun.
Cape Cod buff, a true-blue Cape Codder, romping and gambolling there annually with his extended family.
It is called in the Western counties Eltrot, perhaps because associated with the gambols of the elves.
He was an old man, and had seen many strange sights, so even the glimpses of strange creatures gambolling among the crystal waters of rocky streams did not perturb him.
Once, when the wind shifted slightly, she thought she saw the figure of a girl gambolling amid the falling snow on a hillock a short distance away.
For there on the flat shore were pictures of Grecian lions and Mediterranean goats and maidens with flesh of sand like powdered gold and satyrs piping on hand-carved horns and children dancing, strewing flowers along and along the beach with lambs gambolling after and musicians skipping to their harps and lyres, and unicorns racing youths towards distant meadows, woodlands, ruined temples and volcanoes.
Poor Grumps usually arrived at the village to find both dog and master gone, and would betake himself to his own dwelling, there to lie down and sleep, and dream, perchance, of rambles and gambols with his gigantic friend.
Neptune and Amphitrite might have invited me to dinner, but they must have gambolled off with their hippocamps to elsewhere in their salty domain.
Calvin watched the remaining mobbers cavorting and gamboling in front ot the hot glowing embers and laughed.
Calvin watched the remaining mobbers cavorting and gamboling in front of the hot glowing embers and laughed.
He had barely outgrown his puppyhood, and when Kate laughed, and invited him to come to her, he obeyed with all the alacrity of a dog of exuberantly friendly disposition, and gambolled round her, uttering encouraging barks.
Tails whirring, sniffling with puppyish pleasure, the dogs now gamboled about the black-trousered legs.
Her features were playfellows of one another, none of them pretending to rigid correctness, nor the nose to the ordinary dignity of governess among merry girls, despite which the nose was of a fair design, not acutely interrogative or inviting to gambols.
And a swimming pool would be on their lawn the day after to be shared with another nice couple like them, and the children could gambol on the grassy sward unmenaced by city traffic, and they would spit right in the eye of the city apartment-house janitor after telling him they were getting out of the crowded, evil-smelling, budget-devouring, paper-walled, sticky-windowed, airless, lightless, privacyless hole in the wall forever.