GAMBOLLING Synonyms: 98 Similar and Opposite Words

gamboling 1 of 2

noun

variants or gambolling

as in romping

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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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Noun

But her gamboling merrymakers, hammy showgirls, and blithe flaneurs insist otherwise. — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026

Verb

The foundation's dogs typically eat about 10 metric tons (22,046 pounds) of dry food each year and spend their summers gamboling in the remnants of snow in the mountains before heading 40 kilometers (25 miles) down winding roads back to the kennel in Barryland. — ABC News, 26 June 2026 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

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Noun

Launched in 2001 in its distinctive black bottle—inspired by a neoprene wetsuit and scuba tank, naturally—Surf Spray turned a frolic in the waves into an everyday styling ritual.

— Lauren Valenti, InStyle, 31 July 2026
The main social space on the ground floor is purposely uncluttered, all the better to shift easily between poolside family frolics, predinner drinks with guests, and ad hoc performances when the muse strikes.

— Mayer Rus, Architectural Digest, 1 July 2026

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Verb

Savchenko has been actively pursuing opportunities outside of dancing and is dabbling with a career in acting.

— Sameen Chaudhry, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2026
At its El Segundo headquarters, dancing bots priced from about $2,000 to nearly $90,000 could fill roles in education, housework, security and warehouses.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of dancing

Verb

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
McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave in upstate New York and perched above a rushing waterfall in Tennessee.

— Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026

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In stories centered on objects ranging from a button to a tin soldier, young authors recognize the it-narrative’s potential not only for amusement but for showcasing the power of the small and marginal.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2026
Remmick, Jimmy Crystal and Larry Lamb share an unrelenting desire to entertain, whether performing music outside a juke joint, indulging amusement with graphic violence or delighting the British reading public with scandal and drama.

— Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of amusement

Verb

In the fifth inning, left fielder Sam Antonacci just missed making a leaping grab on a ball hit to the wall by Isaac Paredes.

— LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026
Wolf’s Shinobi Prosthetic houses a grappling hook for scaling rooftops, leaping between trees, and approaching enemies stealthily.

— Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of leaping

Noun

Pattaya born of the Vietnam War In calling in a port near Pattaya, the Lincoln is coming to a rest-and-relaxation spot made famous during the Vietnam War-era as a raucous destination for US servicemembers to unwind from the pressures of war.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2026
The Standards Did Not Move Gould has consistently separated the expansion of chartering from any relaxation of standards, and his own statements draw the line clearly.

— AJ Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026

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