English▸ verb
( gambols)
(, gambolling)
(, gambolled)
(; US English gambols)
(, US English gamboling)
(, US English gamboled)
[no object, usually with adverbial] run or jump about playfully: the mare gambolled towards 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’.