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

Read our full breakdown of Jackson’s historic spending spree.

— AJC.com, AJC.com, 28 Oct. 2026
This bacterial illness is infamous for the explosive killing spree known as the Black Death, which wiped out between a third and half of the population of Europe between 1347 and 1353.

— Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of spree

Verb

When Oscar halfheartedly tries to throw a ball into one of the set’s prop cubes and improbably makes the shot, the whole set goes joyously nuts, with the performers leaping up to embrace him and cavort around him.

— Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 22 Sep. 2026
There’s also less of the eccentric charm that’s to be found in Wenders’ other docs, like the bits in Pina where the dancers cavort around in scruffy parts of Wuppertal where their home Dance Theater is based.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of cavort

Noun

Treat them to this silly little romp, which sees all-time queen Oscar Wilde and his lover taking in a secret performance of the writer’s Salome at a friend’s brothel.

— Juan A. Ramírez, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2026
Selman has been able to add a layer of camp on top that gives its boudoir romp ethos a layer of knowingness.

— Max Berlinger, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of romp

Verb

Nobody Wants This is back for a third season of dancing around the real issues of contemporary Judaism in America so that maybe Kristen Bell’s convert character Joanne can learn about hamantaschen rather than have one political conversation.

— Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 23 Oct. 2026
Laureate Park Lights aims to dazzle the Lake Nona community with lights that dance to music.

— Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026

Definition of dance

Verb

The boys frolic in the sand, playfully wrestle with each other, and drive an orange camper van; some young women join the fun midway through, running across the dunes alongside the group.

— Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2026
On Wednesday, the actress took to social media to share a series of photos of herself frolicking around the Santa Monica Pier in a brunette wig while enjoying an afternoon with her best friend.

— Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of frolic

Noun

Birds, including Canadian geese, several types of hawks, mynas and larks were also killed in the thousands.

— Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
And indeed Verity — directed with straightforward competence and a faint wry smirk by Michael Showalter and adapted by screenwriter Nick Antosca (Apple TV’s Cape Fear series) — is a mild lark for its first hour.

— Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2026