as in spree
a time or instance of carefree fun
she and her old college roommate headed off for one final European gambol before returning to the States to start their separate careers
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as in to cavort
to play and run about happily
dog owners chat while their pooches gambol on the park's great lawn
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Recent Examples of gambol
Laurel Graeber,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2020
The other villagers are at first just part of the magnificent landscape in which the couple gambol, before their gossip and shunning and sabotaging begin to personify the evil that has encroached.
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Lidija Haas,
The New Republic,
13 Dec. 2019
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
The Paiva children, including Vera (played as a young woman by Valentina Herszage) and Marcelo (played as a boy by Guilherme Silveira), are gamboling on a sunny beach, playing volleyball, and chasing a stray puppy.
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Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 Jan. 2025
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Noun
Designed by Amanda Villalobos, the prehistoric arthropods in this show gambol about with googly eyes and flicking antennas and tails.
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Laurel Graeber,
New York Times,
10 Feb. 2020
The other villagers are at first just part of the magnificent landscape in which the couple gambol, before their gossip and shunning and sabotaging begin to personify the evil that has encroached.
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Lidija Haas,
The New Republic,
13 Dec. 2019
Verb
The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Apr. 2025
The Paiva children, including Vera (played as a young woman by Valentina Herszage) and Marcelo (played as a boy by Guilherme Silveira), are gamboling on a sunny beach, playing volleyball, and chasing a stray puppy.
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Peter Rainer,
Christian Science Monitor,
16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gambol
Noun
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The charges stem from a March 15 crime spree in southeast Portland that prosecutors said targeted four women.
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And Louis, perhaps exhausted from his spree of bouts, but also perhaps looking past Schmeling, hadn’t trained much.
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Formal dining rooms began disappearing from American homes in the last century, replaced by open kitchens, through which all members of the family can cavort freely, like a splash pad; contemporary Americans apparently have little use for the plate.
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Tiny hangers-on are tucked into pockets and cavort in crevices.
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But also joy, as evidenced by this first-ever post-Beatles duet with Ringo Starr, where the two pals smile their way through a romp about their storied past.
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As part of his midweek Windy City romp, Ferris memorably visits Wrigley Field with his sophisticated girlfriend, Sloane Peterson, and angsty best pal, Cameron Frye.
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Young performers with the Confidence Is Everything cheer group and musicians from the Rex and Margaret Fortune Early College High School led a lineup of 15 contingents dancing, marching and riding along the inner streets of the park while celebrants and passersby cheered them on.
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Where do dads go to dance on Father's Day?
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In the summer, the monsoon rains fatten the grass into a verdant shag, an annual revel for grazers.
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The historic Paulaner brewery hosts three weeks of rowdy revels, kicking off on March 6.
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Earlier this week, the actress, 35, broke out yet another pair of the sporty bottoms while frolicking around New York City.
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One prompted stories of an old cowboy sitting alone on a porch, surveying a ghost town; another prompted stories about a sun rising over a meadow, where tiny creatures awakened and started to frolic.
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Feeling slightly out of place amid this crowd is Annie, here on a lark to appease her sister.
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That includes a bird-calling scene that sees the duo strolling through the forest and offering up their own spin on the calls of thrushes and larks.
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Isaac Collins got the big hit, a two-run double that one-hopped the left-field wall.
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The carriage driver hopped off to take a photograph of the family near a fountain when the horse suddenly bolted.
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“Gambol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gambol. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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