Gambol

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  • intransitive verb. To leap about playfully; frolic.
  • noun. A playful skipping or frolicking about.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A skipping, leaping, or frisking about; a spring, leap, skip, or jump, as in frolic or sport.
  • To skip about in sport; caper in frolic, like children or lambs; frisk carelessly or heedlessly.
  • Synonyms To frolic, romp, caper.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
  • intransitive verb. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To move about playfully; to frolic.
  • verb. to do a forward roll
  • noun. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
  • noun. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement
  • verb. play boisterously
  • Word Usage
    "His inexhaustible gift of lightning repartee I saw illustrated on another occasion, when he presided at the midnight "gambol" of a Bohemian club, at which it needed the utmost tact and presence of mind to "ride the whirlwind and direct the storm.""
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    play  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Tabasco  boatsin  caper  curvet  dido  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    antic  beam  bob  bounce  bound  
    variant
    verb-form