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dog owners chat while their pooches gambol on the park's great lawn
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Recent Examples of gamboling
Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
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
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
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The group watches as a sock puppet opens up a lemonade stand for business and frolics around a lemon farm before Tomlinson dives into a swimming pool.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
13 Oct. 2025
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Tim Plough’s day started next to the Pacific Ocean, watching young sons Jackson, Camden and Bodie frolic in the sand and surf at Pismo Beach.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
5 Oct. 2025
Verb
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There’s also a quintet of dancing poodles named Lollipups.—
David Lyman,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Dec. 2025
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In the sporty video, McRae is seen dancing in a hockey rink, doing splits at the front desk and riding around on a Zamboni.—
Angie Martoccio,
Rolling Stone,
11 Dec. 2025
Noun
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For most of the people, there are some love triangles and dalliances and some broken hearts along with a lot of tension between a lot of the crew.—
Brianna Zigler,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 June 2026
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The executive noted that Gucci, founded in 1921, has had dalliances with the car industry and auto racing, mentioning that the grandson of founder Aldo Gucci was a race car drive.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
27 May 2026
Verb
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From Babygirl to Vladimir to Bridget Jones 4, women cavorting with much younger men are all over our screens.—
Meg Walters,
Glamour,
12 Mar. 2026
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There's Katharine cavorting around on her skis with her friend.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
12 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The Professional can certainly be understood as a nonlinear narrative of an artist on the peripheries of music, navigating a world far from home with equal parts amusement and bemusement.—
Levi Dayan,
Pitchfork,
9 June 2026
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From across the street, Leonor watched with amusement.—
Ruben Vives,
Los Angeles Times,
7 June 2026
Verb
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The 67-year-old man, later identified as Gomez, then jumped from their bedroom window to the patio cover just below, before leaping nine feet to the ground, according to the outlets.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
8 Dec. 2025
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Early in the third quarter, Lamb tried to make a leaping touchdown catch from Dak Prescott.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Those three became pivotal pieces in what became the Ducks’ rollicking, magical run to Game 7 of the 2003 Stanley Cup Final.—
Eric Stephens,
New York Times,
7 Mar. 2026
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Everyone stood quiet for a moment, until the dogs — Dottie and Otis — resumed their rollicking in the snow and soon everyone was talking, the kids putting it all together.—
Greg Borowski,
jsonline.com,
18 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Taylor Swift was hopping up and down courtside.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
11 June 2026
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Also, while New Orleans is arguably best explored on foot, consider hopping aboard one of the city’s historic streetcars for a breezy ride between neighborhoods without having to walk in the heat.—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
9 June 2026
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“Gamboling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamboling. Accessed 17 Jun. 2026.
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