GAMBOL Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

gambol 1 of 2

noun

Definition of gambol

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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gambol

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verb

ˈgam-bəl

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

Noun

In my backyard, rabbits gambol, squirrels leap and the birds sing with a new exuberance now that there’s no traffic noise from the nearby highway. — Claire Messud, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2020 Designed by Amanda Villalobos, the prehistoric arthropods in this show gambol about with googly eyes and flicking antennas and tails. — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020

Verb

His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home. — Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025 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. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gambol

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gambol

Noun

While the losses made up a small percentage of overall employees, the drop compounded longstanding shortages — and contrasted sharply with a hiring spree under President Joe Biden that had begun to address them.

— Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2026
According to the Benicia Police Department, David Magana received a sentence of 146 years to life following a crime spree that took place in March 2024.

— Tim Fang, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of spree

Verb

When Oscar halfheartedly tries to throw a ball into one of the set’s prop cubes and improbably makes the shot, the whole set goes joyously nuts, with the performers leaping up to embrace him and cavort around him.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
There’s also less of the eccentric charm that’s to be found in Wenders’ other docs, like the bits in Pina where the dancers cavort around in scruffy parts of Wuppertal where their home Dance Theater is based.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of cavort

Noun

What starts as a seemingly gossipy romp through the women’s Whats App group about the ways our neighbors help us and hurt us with their constant spying, turns into a murder mystery that reveals the darker corners of the women’s lives.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Nov. 2026
The Caveat What if your kid is looking for more than an exciting monster romp, though?

— James Grebey, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of romp

Verb

Before dinner is served, a masked man approaches people in the crowd — half in costumes, half in formalwear — in Clifton’s second-story ballroom, once a swing dancing haven.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
This video is a great option for kids who like to dance and sing along to classic kids’ songs.

— Parents, Parents, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of dance

Noun

Thinking music was little more than a fun lark, Thomas enrolled at Valdosta State College in South Georgia and planned on getting a degree in history before heading to law school.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2026
Birds, including Canadian geese, several types of hawks, mynas and larks were also killed in the thousands.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of lark

Verb

Material defects caused the circuit’s resonant frequency to hop back and forth between two distinct states.

— Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Nov. 2026
The whole situation devolves from there, with Reed having to shoot Peter to prevent him from strangling her, destroying all of the surveillance tape, and hopping into a getaway car with Zeus and Spitfire after a very cursory search for Vita.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2026