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) (present participle of gambol English) n. The act of one who gambols. vb. (context British English) (present participle of gambol English)
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 "gambolling".
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.