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or gambolling
as in romping
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or gambolling
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
Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gamboling
Verb
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Large crowds of onlookers were treated to a performance of boxing and dancing on the show floor.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
9 Jan. 2026
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The images show vivid auroras dancing overhead and a fox below who seems far more interested in the photographer than the light show unfolding above.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
9 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Just a few weeks earlier, Miguel Angel Garcia Medina, 31, had been cavorting with his four children at their Arlington, Texas, home, meeting his 8-year-old daughter for lunch at school and giddily planning the arrival of their fifth child.—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
22 Nov. 2025
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Contreras tagged Randy Rodriguez’s hanging slider in the bottom of the ninth, cavorting around the bases while his teammates spilled out of the home dugout.—
Andrew Baggarly,
New York Times,
23 Aug. 2025
Noun
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But images of those youthful frolics amid chirping children quickly slips behind me, muted by my puffing, labored breaths and the blanket of snow.—
Thomas Cangelosi,
Hartford Courant,
4 Jan. 2026
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The festive frolic at The Colony Animal Care Services looked fit for a four-legged king.—
Marvin Hurst,
CBS News,
18 Dec. 2025
Verb
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Polar bears are leaping through their evolution in real time as rising temperatures threaten their habitat.—
Devika Rao,
TheWeek,
6 Jan. 2026
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Luna is leaping into your chatty 3rd house, inviting you to share ideas with humor and rewrite notes before hitting send.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Jan. 2026
Noun
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This one looks like a #MeToo campus tale, about an adjunct running into her old PhD advisor who just so happens to have written a book about his past that might feature the adjunct and their dalliance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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This dalliance was not real, but rather one of many scenes from Marty Supreme that was filmed on the ground in the Big Apple.—
Alexandra Jhamb Burns,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Jan. 2026
Verb
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Neither is having your kids hopping about from school to school like free agents on 1-year contracts.—
Sean Keeler,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
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Travelers are chasing big moments and unforgettable experiences—think the Winter Olympics, the World Cup, or cultural festivals—rather than hopping from place to place.—
Samantha Leal,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Even as his Reddit-haunting admirers still parse his lyrics for hidden meanings, his spirit surely looks down on them with wry amusement at his fans’ unending search for profundity.—
Alexander Larman,
Time,
10 Jan. 2026
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Unidentified plainclothes dudes then dragged her out of the high school auditorium while other Idahoans watched — some in amusement, others not so much.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
8 Jan. 2026
Verb
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This was an indulgent gift after a busy day romping through the busy streets of London.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
3 Dec. 2025
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The Buckeyes are romping through everyone, and that counts for something.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Gamboling.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gamboling. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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