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The striped-bass fingerlings, he comments cheerfully, "were gamboling all over the tank like Labrador pups."

From Time Magazine Archive

I saw a print in Montfauçon, where fish were gamboling like porpusses on the surface of the sea, and one or two were visible through the paddles of a boat.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 by Various

Pet hounds were gamboling about the room, and games and toys of every description were scattered all about in the greatest profusion.

From The Elm Tree Tales by Smith, F. Irene Burge (Frances Irene Burge)

"They are meant to move, but they are perfectly still," said Judy; "if I drew them, I'd"—she puckered her brows—"oh, I'd see that they were gamboling about."

From A Young Mutineer by Meade, L. T.

The tunny fish, playful lambs of the blue pasture lands, were gamboling over its surface or passing in schools under the furrows of the waves.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster