gambolling

verbtumble playfully

Synonyms for gambolling

verb tumble playfully

Antonyms for gambolling

face

Word Origin & History

"frolic, merrymaking," 1590s, originally gambolde "a leap or spring" (c.1500), from Middle French gambade (15c.), from Late Latin gamba "horse's hock or leg," from Greek kampe "a bending" (on notion of "a joint"), from PIE *kamp- "to bend" (see campus).

Example Sentences for gambolling

This man's was different: soft, non-intellectual, warm, a kind of gambolling.

In your new garden I picture you gambolling with your children.

She then called upon a dog which was gambolling close at hand.

Among the tufted bog-rushes, the lambs were gambolling a few yards away.

The first we saw was tons of her gambolling around in the water.

A fine porpoise had been gambolling in the river, near the Haven Bridge.

Here was plenty of animation, plenty of scurrying and gambolling, of laughter and tears.

Down the passage came leaping and gambolling the Doctor's marmoset.

He was off with a bound, gambolling about her like a wave of the sea.

The dogs were the first to announce the arrival of a friend, gambolling about him.

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