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verb-intransitive. To leap about playfully; frolic.

n. A playful skipping or frolicking about.

v. To move about playfully; to frolic.

v. to do a forward roll

n. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.

n. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

n. A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.

verb-intransitive. To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.

n. 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.

n. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement

v. play boisterously

"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.""

gambolled    gambolling    gambols   

play   

gambolled    gambolling   

gamboled    gambolled    gamboling    gambolling   

hop    frisk    skip   

frisk    curvet    disport    dido    misbehave    caper    boatsin    frolic    lustie    Tabasco