gambol

"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

Painted pigs gambol in green fields by meandering streams under blue, cloud-studded skies happily oblivious of the fate that awaited them within.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2022

Selections from Debussy gambol and ruminate; Higdon’s “Secret and Glass Gardens” moves from a guarded interiority to brash, attention-grabbing declarations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

If he spies a gawky long-legged puppy swaggering about his own farmyard, he will come closer and entice him out to play by means of every sort of caper and gambol.

From The Animal Story Book by Various

“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

Then there’s Indy, who gambols around like a large Labrador puppy.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 15, 2015

The same impulse to unman a social or cultural threat gambols across Groucho’s exchanges with Eliot.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2014

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

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

Here, in the salad years, the movie greats gamboled … Laurel and Hardy, W.C.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2020

As they approached, the dogs all sprang forward and gamboled around them.

From The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I by Henry Cabot Lodge

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

McDonald is game for the high jinks but doesn’t always seem natural gamboling about the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

For California’s governor, who loves gamboling on a national stage, the whole evening was a lark.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023

Suddenly, chimps emerged from the woods, gamboling across the grassy lawn and clambering into the adjoining buildings.

From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2023

The donkey also wonderingly observes horses gamboling in a field, glimpsed through the narrow window of a transport van, and tropical fish in a tank in a store window.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 12, 2022

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gamboling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters.

From "1984" by George Orwell

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

Temmer, in fact, looks almost hysterical, as though a herd of puppies with bows on are gambolling straight towards her.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2013

And in the end you have to love a choreographer whose concluding image of world peace is a stage covered with soaked and battered national flags, with two live lambs, bleating and gambolling over them.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 19, 2012

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