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

Los Angeles is set to go on an affordable housing spending spree.

— Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
And wouldn’t the Father’s spree, therefore, be an act not of cruelty, but of liberation?

— Matthew McLean, Artforum, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of spree

Verb

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
Euphoric players cavorting in disbelief, long-suffering fans crumpling to their knees in tears, commentators’ voices cracking at the drama of it all.

— Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026

Definition of cavort

Noun

The romp abruptly ended at the Boise airport when Love and Chan were removed from a white sports car by federal agents, according to a video obtained by TMZ.

— Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Innovation defeated Freedom, 51-0 The Bulls improved to 5-0 with the romp past the Patriots (2-2).

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of romp

Verb

In what is arguably the ballet’s climax, the Joffrey’s entire bench of 24 men performs as a spectacular corps de ballet, dancing out the frustration of being unable to find work when the 1920s crash into the ‘30s.

— Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026
Distant lights – maybe car lights or fireflies – dance across a pitch-black night scene.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of dance

Verb

Fast-food staples like McDonald’s became a low-cost refuge where seniors lingered over morning coffee, students gathered after school and young kids frolicked in play areas.

— Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026
Elk are fond of wallows in the heat of the summer, often frolicking in them late in the afternoon.

— Jim Zumbo, Outdoor Life, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of frolic

Noun

The Helton also comes with a removable pocket clip and a beaded lanyard that can be lark's footed around the attachment hole.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026
DiGiannantonio was part of a group of six men, most of them young, married fathers working in industries such as general contracting and liquor sales, who opened Hooters on a lark.

— Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of lark

Verb

Legislators from major production states — Georgia, New York, California, Texas — have hopped on board, but the efforts of CAP and others were aimed at bringing more people into the tent, including those from states with less filming going on.

— Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
To return, board the hop-on, hop-off boat with your CityCard for a 90-minute city tour (hopping off not obligatory).

— Adrienne Wyper, TheWeek, 17 Sep. 2026