gambol

Her puppies gambol around her, looking healthy and excited, but everyone else seems momentarily stunned by this story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

"They are dying so that you can gambol in your redwood cabinets," he said while addressing the government.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

Concerns about health, safety and inclusion are driving new trends in the annual gambol of ghouls and goblins.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

But as they gambol about the moors in those early years, it’s the joy they take in each other, and the freedom they feel together, that forms a bond so unbreakable it transcends death.

From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2022

For when he threw fly they would all run away, Or round it would gambol and sportively play, But never allowed it to lead them astray.

From The Anglican Friar and the Fish which he Took by Hook and by Crook by A. Novice

When he collapses into a crumpled heap of disjointed limbs, or gambols triumphantly to a playground refrain, his figure demonstrates operatic feeling with delicate precision.

From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2023

“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

What’s left is a shimmering sensibility that gambols freely in a new age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2019

As the astronauts finished their scientific work — and their gambols — they planted an American flag on the moon.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2018

Though others roared at Bear’s antics, this young man took offense at Bear’s gambols and, with growing anger, made three attempts to snatch his mazer back.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Like nature sprites, the dancers gamboled over “nature carpets,” rugs crafted of foam by the Turinese artist Piero Gilardi.

From New York Times ● Jun. 30, 2022

Three dogs gamboled about as Kristof, whose curly hair is graying, spoke during the interview in a shed.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

They squawked and gamboled for the Chicken Shack dance cam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2021

She gamboled along to the music on Cannon Green behind the iconic Nassau Hall and screeched with glee.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021

Mr. and Mrs. Antelope were walking along very quietly; but the baby was so pleased to get out, that she gamboled far away, and frisked about.

From Indian Child Life by Edwin Willard Deming

Just before the hour the new man took possession on the left and gambolled across halfway, swaying mesmerically inside two challenges before exploding into a drive which crashed in off the bar.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2017

"My family seem incredibly relaxed with me," he purred, as two cubs gambolled nearby.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2013

But having been thrown a bone by his manager, Torres gambolled exuberantly after it, impressing with his work rate and movement in and around the box.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

Kittens In Manhattan, two kittens gambolled around a gas jet, turned it on.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

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.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

The difference is we can see the actors mugging and gamboling.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2023

Reports spread across the Internet of long-haired mountain goats gamboling through a town in Wales, jackals crowding a park in Tel Aviv and pumas venturing into residential neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021

There’s a gamboling quality in the dense first figures.

From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021

The walls bore the same ornamental plates, each featuring a highly colored, beribboned kitten, gamboling and frisking with sickening cuteness.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling

And, if you dig the ship, check out the mother—the queen of the meanies, who rolls up late in the show, gambolling across salt flats toward a school bus full of innocent children.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016

That’s a big ask, as you’ll know if you’ve ever defrosted a lamb chop and hoped to see it gambolling round the garden.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2016

The gambolling creatures we habitually count to get to sleep are recast as necrotic nightmares, a World War Z-style rolling wave of bad baa juju.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016

BST07:55 9 min: Spurs attack on the break, with Harry Kane gambolling down the right flank.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 8, 2015

I leaned back in the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more fully the aërial gambolling.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker