gambol

Definition

To move about playfully; to frolic.

Etymology

From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).

Example Sentences

• "The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled."
• "At our old pastimes in the hall ⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence ⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all."
• "[…] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown."