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How to pronounce gambol in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms caper, frolic, play, romp
Type of diversion, recreation
Has types dalliance, flirt, flirtation, flirting, folly, foolery, game, horseplay, indulgence, lunacy, teasing, tomfoolery, toying, word play, coquetry, craziness
Type Words
Synonyms cavort, disport, frisk, frolic, lark, lark about, rollick, romp, run around, skylark, sport
Type of play


the gamboling lambs in the meadows.

Examples of gambol

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Another shows a corner where a handful of piglets cluster and geese gambol by.
From the chron.com
And outside the windows, the dust devils continue to gambol across the campus.
From the positivesharing.com
It is practically the definition of a place where children should not gambol.
From the post-gazette.com
I love that natural feel and flow where you can gambol over space and time.
From the online.wsj.com
If you are of an easily distressed nature, skip and gambol your way to the next entry.
From the newscientist.com
It's well worth the gambol, though, especially when the weather's fine.
From the telegraph.co.uk
They bark their lines with spirit and style, gambol about with bravado.
From the ocregister.com
Then there were the gardens and it was my turn to gambol about giggling.
From the couriermail.com.au
It means she can go to the park more often to gambol with Roger and Rex.
From the smh.com.au
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  • Frolic: play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden"; "the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped in the playroom"
  • Play: gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly"
  • (The Gambols) The Gambols is a British comic strip created by Barry Appleby in 1950 which was originally published in the Daily Express and is now seen in the Mail on Sunday.
  • An instance of running or skipping about playfully; To move about playfully; to frolic
  • N. A forward roll. A usage sufficiently well established to be deployed by our PE teachers.
  • To skip or leap about joyfully.
  • To dance or skip around playfully