GAMBOL Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

gambol 1 of 2

noun

Definition of gambol

as in spree

a time or instance of carefree fun she and her old college roommate headed off for one final European gambol before returning to the States to start their separate careers

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gambol

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verb

ˈgam-bəl

as in to cavort

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 gambol

Noun

In my backyard, rabbits gambol, squirrels leap and the birds sing with a new exuberance now that there’s no traffic noise from the nearby highway. — Claire Messud, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2020 Designed by Amanda Villalobos, the prehistoric arthropods in this show gambol about with googly eyes and flicking antennas and tails. — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020

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 The dire wolves known to paleontologists, however, are different from the creatures that can now be viewed in Colossal videos gamboling in an open field. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gambol

Recent Examples of Synonyms for gambol

Noun

But investors continue to question whether the spending spree on AI infrastructure will continue, and whether Nvidia can stay ahead of a growing slate of competitors.

— Clare Duffy, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Video captured the dramatic moment a SWAT team rammed its vehicle into a tractor during a standoff with a suspect who allegedly went on a shooting spree near an Oregon home.

— Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of spree

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
Actors depicting a who’s who of artists, like Picasso and Warhol, cavort around the stage.

— Daniella Walsh, Oc Register, 25 July 2026

Definition of cavort

Verb

Many a time while working in the field, Walker and her team saw their target species frolicking above their heads, yet their nets remained frustratingly empty at the end of the night.

— Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 28 Aug. 2026
The star took a break from basking in the sun and frolicking through the waves, lining up on the white sand in front of the ocean with her BFFs for a silly dance party.

— Lara Walsh, InStyle, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of frolic

Noun

The Helton also comes with a removable pocket clip and a beaded lanyard that can be lark's footed around the attachment hole.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 1 Sep. 2026
DiGiannantonio was part of a group of six men, most of them young, married fathers working in industries such as general contracting and liquor sales, who opened Hooters on a lark.

— Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of lark

Verb

And if the couple decides to live a nomadic life, hopping from mansion to mansion, Farlow said thousands of years of Samoyed breeding should come in handy.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 3 Sep. 2026
Though nothing about the current situation is ideal, there’s no clear way to hop off without ensuring certain doom at the hands of a large, angry cat.

— Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 3 Sep. 2026