gambol
verb (used without object)
to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Fate has gamboled with us—it has mocked us with a child's game.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Alexander Leighton