The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
alt. (context British English) (en-past of: gambol) vb. (context British English) (en-past of: gambol)
WordNet
See gambol
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 "gambolled".
About them crazily coloured birds and beasts gambolled, and Azhure wondered that so much gaiety could flash about them when they were wrapped in such morbid thoughts.
In some areas birds hopped across, seeking fish that had been trapped in small inlets as the pack shifted, in other areas icebears - Urbeth's smaller cousins - gambolled, chasing birds or re-telling stories of their greatest seal hunts.
And so, as the two young lovers gambolled on the sun-deck, Mrs Sandicott ensconced herself in a corner of the First Class Lounge and calculated.
And all summer long the bees in the straw hives buzzed over the heather and young rabbits gambolled outside warrens.