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  • verb US Present participle of gambol.

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Examples

  • Mr. Boal's action and dance additions, duly spelled out in the program's scene-by-scene chart, vary and at times jar: The opening, with the village children gamboling into view, looks more like a free-time ballet-class romp than the playful bucolic vignette.

    From the Northwest Emerges a New 'Giselle' Robert Greskovic 2011

  • Mr. Boal's action and dance additions, duly spelled out in the program's scene-by-scene chart, vary and at times jar: The opening, with the village children gamboling into view, looks more like a free-time ballet-class romp than the playful bucolic vignette.

    From the Northwest Emerges a New 'Giselle' Robert Greskovic 2011

  • Prettily and sexily costumed by Ms. Kurtzman in brief baby-doll tunics in a range of cerise and gray hues sparingly appliquéd with tiny roses and paired with pearlescent trunks, Mr. Morris's octet of women form a gamboling sisterhood—think classical nymphs rendered by Isadora Duncan.

    Where Dancers and Patrons Meet for a Duet Robert Greskovic 2011

  • Spiral notebooks with fluffy white kittens, gamboling puppies, and vampy women batting dark-lashed eyes.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Will depart shortly for bucolic countryside home of Support Team's family, where frolicking and gamboling will ensue.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Spiral notebooks with fluffy white kittens, gamboling puppies, and vampy women batting dark-lashed eyes.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Will depart shortly for bucolic countryside home of Support Team's family, where frolicking and gamboling will ensue.

    !!!!! 2009

  • The next day I woke up and the sun was out, squirrels and rabbits were gamboling on our lawn and all was right with the world, according to Papa and according to Momma.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Only a curmudgeon would care that gamboling kittens may damage a few plants.

    Gardens and Kittens with Recipe for Eggplant Kebab on Rosemary Skewers (Κεμπάμπ με Μελιτζάνες και Δενδρολίβανο) Laurie Constantino 2008

  • A large, black dog came gamboling up, wagging all over.

    The Death of James A. Garfield « A Fly in Amber 2008

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