gamboling
- present participle of gambol.
Example Sentences
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With trees swaying in the gentle breeze and birds and butterflies gamboling in the setting sun, it would be foolish not to fall into sportive line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
Suddenly, chimps emerged from the woods, gamboling across the grassy lawn and clambering into the adjoining buildings.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2023
Reports spread across the Internet of long-haired mountain goats gamboling through a town in Wales, jackals crowding a park in Tel Aviv and pumas venturing into residential neighborhoods in Santiago, Chile.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2021
And where earlier series featured grown humans gamboling in costume, the new one is made as puppet animation, the most magical of animated mediums.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2019
The walls bore the same ornamental plates, each featuring a highly colored, beribboned kitten, gamboling and frisking with sickening cuteness.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
