GAMBOL Synonyms: 68 Similar and Opposite Words

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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

That borrowing spree, in turn, could present a risk to large Wall Street firms if clients are unable to pay them back.

— Morgan Chittum, Fortune, 8 Oct. 2026
The stakes are highest for Meta, which went on a massive spending spree last year to acquire talent and build a business in AI that could compete with OpenAI and Anthropic.

— Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 7 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

Missouri’s romp of Florida last weekend echoed with national recognition for tackle Cayden Green.

— Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 7 Oct. 2026
Everyone was reminded of that element of his game in his Heat preseason debut Saturday, when the two-time MVP dished out seven assists in 14 minutes in a 129-105 romp over the Toronto Raptors in Quebec City.

— Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of romp

Verb

The gala concluded with dinner and dancing among the ballerinas and patrons.

— Brianna J. Heath, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2026
The northern lights are usually spotted dancing across dark night skies — but this striking new view shows them from an entirely different perspective.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of dance

Noun

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
But the character of Les Grossman was a trivial showbiz lark.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of lark

Verb

Consisting of eight sessions of several 15-minute talks held across two time slots, these were designed so that audience members could hop around at will.

— Bartolomeo Sala, The Dial, 29 Sep. 2026
Everyone else just had to hop on the train or a domestic flight, but Alex is in Australia … trying to survive in this economy.

— Tom Smyth, Vulture, 28 Sep. 2026