GAMBOLING Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

gamboling 1 of 2

noun

variants or gambolling

as in romping

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gamboling

2 of 2

verb

variants or gambolling

present participle of gambol

as in dancing

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 gamboling

Noun

But her gamboling merrymakers, hammy showgirls, and blithe flaneurs insist otherwise. —

Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026

Verb

Okay, so the cow immediately finds its baby, and then there is a BABY COW gamboling in a field. —

Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026 Know Them By Their Fruits, for example, shows people and animals gamboling among fruit trees, and The Bermuda Triangle of Nacogdoches shows planes crashing into the ocean, in front of a plat of the landlocked town. —

Benjamin Lima special Contributor, Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb. 2026 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 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

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamboling

Noun

Since this World Cup began, Boston was captivated by the Tartan Army, and videos of their frolics have gone viral all over the world.

— Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 19 June 2026
In tom thit heo, from southern Vietnam, shrimp and thin slices of pork shoulder frolic in a stir-fry heady with lemongrass and black pepper.

— Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 14 Apr. 2026