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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—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.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gambol
Noun
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So with an eye at going tit-for-tat against Republicans’ gerrymandering spree, Democrats see the midterms as just the next battle in the never-ending redistricting wars.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
8 June 2026
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The shooting spree began Sunday morning at a gas station in Kochav Yair on the Israeli-West Bank border and moved to nearby towns, including Salit in the West Bank.—
Robert Blankenship,
The Washington Examiner,
7 June 2026
Verb
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Tiny hangers-on are tucked into pockets and cavort in crevices.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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Students disrobed and cavorted at St. Louis University, Washington University in St. Louis and Washburn University in Topeka.—
Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
14 May 2026
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The European romp does, after all, happen for a reason that is impossible to accept—for viewers as well as for Ava.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
29 May 2026
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Thus Director Park will likely be mulling over the sprawling monster sci-fi Hope, by his countryman Na Hong-Jin, and possibly Léa Mysius’s thriller-romp The Birthday Party, which contains a lot of Park’s trademark black humor.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
23 May 2026
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Her figures lounged, stood, or in one instance danced in unadorned, nearly empty interiors composed with broad, feathery brushstrokes.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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Complete with a red carpet and a dancing humanoid robot, the event could have been mistaken for a science fiction Hollywood premiere.—
Jared Perlo,
NBC news,
6 June 2026
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In the summer, the monsoon rains fatten the grass into a verdant shag, an annual revel for grazers.—
Shi En Kim,
AZCentral.com,
26 Mar. 2026
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The historic Paulaner brewery hosts three weeks of rowdy revels, kicking off on March 6.—
Mark Ellwood,
AFAR Media,
12 Jan. 2026
Verb
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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.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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By watching every moment of his famous subjects frolicking around the studio, we’d all be deprived of the chance to cherish the best seconds of it.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
17 May 2026
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The theme seems like a lark, but the incense holder is actually the most common item that designers submit to Lichen for consideration.—
Anthony Paletta,
Curbed,
23 May 2026
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His movies are goofs, larks, stunts, knowingly arch bizarro-world riffs.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 May 2026
Verb
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Those suborbital hops were paused in January so the company could focus on New Glenn and upcoming moonshots.—
Marcia Dunn,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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Not well known in the investment community, Gill hopped on Reddit to pitch reasons to invest in GameStop in the subreddit WallStreetBets.—
Zev Fima,
CNBC,
29 May 2026
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“Gambol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gambol. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.
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