English▸ verb
(gambols, gamboling, gamboled; British gambols, gambolling, gambolled)
[no object, usually with adverbial] run or jump about playfully: the mare gamboled toward her.
▸ noun an act of running or jumping about playfully:
the two of them run off to the woods for a gambol together.
– ORIGIN early 16th century : alteration of gambade (see gambado1), via French from Italian gambata ‘trip up’, from gamba ‘leg’.