as in spree
a time or instance of carefree fun
she and her old college roommate headed off for one final European gambol before returning to the States to start their separate careers
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as in to cavort
to play and run about happily
dog owners chat while their pooches gambol on the park's great lawn
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Recent Examples of gambol
Claire Messud, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2020
Designed by Amanda Villalobos, the prehistoric arthropods in this show gambol about with googly eyes and flicking antennas and tails.
—Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
Just as creepy to me was the mural on the Farmer John slaughterhouse in Vernon, a bucolic panorama of happy piglets gamboling with kids and sleeping under shady trees — a gory dissonance to the daily assembly-line killing of thousands of pigs inside the abattoir.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
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Noun
In my backyard, rabbits gambol, squirrels leap and the birds sing with a new exuberance now that there’s no traffic noise from the nearby highway.
—Claire Messud, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2020
Designed by Amanda Villalobos, the prehistoric arthropods in this show gambol about with googly eyes and flicking antennas and tails.
—Laurel Graeber, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2020
Verb
Her puppies gambol around her, looking healthy and excited, but everyone else seems momentarily stunned by this story.
—Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
Just as creepy to me was the mural on the Farmer John slaughterhouse in Vernon, a bucolic panorama of happy piglets gamboling with kids and sleeping under shady trees — a gory dissonance to the daily assembly-line killing of thousands of pigs inside the abattoir.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gambol
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Management is getting more stressful Many companies have undergone rapid transformations since 2020, including dealing with mass turnover and hiring sprees, adjusting to remote and hybrid work, restructuring teams, adding responsibilities to jobs and facing budget cuts.Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 11 Dec. 2024
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One-third of CPS schools are more than half empty yet the CPS board — a vassal of CTU — has increased salaries and benefits by nearly 50% since 2019, going on a 9,000-staffer hiring spree even as 37,000 more students left the system.Forrest Claypool, Chicago Tribune, 5 Dec. 2024
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Some 500 of them cavorted at Frank Buck’s Jungle Camp on a humanmade structure called Monkey Mountain.Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Thus Andy Dixon paints Day-Glo takes on Rococo romances, with sculptural nudes draped in loose tunics cavorting around pleasure gardens dotted with classical statuary; these same motifs are distilled into dainty arabesques and diaphanous whorls in the abstract canvases of Michaela Yearwood-Dan.Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2024
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Check out the full doc, time stamped to the aftermath of the romp, below.Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 11 Dec. 2024
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The 45-19 romp on Saturday over the Cyclones awards the Sun Devils their first Big 12 title and sends them into the College Football Playoff.Rebecca 'Becca' Dyer, The Arizona Republic, 10 Dec. 2024
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To boost your next-day memory, experts say to try brisk walking, cycling, swimming, or dancing to upbeat music.Lauryn Higgins, Health, 17 Dec. 2024
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The first public drone display took place in 2012 when art and technology group, Ars Electronica, programmed 49 tiny craft to to dance and form shapes during the Futurelab festival in the Austrian city of Linz.Caroline Reid, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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Our revels are over when she’s called back on set in Nashville to continue filming Scarpetta, the Amazon TV adaptation of Patricia Cornwall’s bestselling novels about crime-solving forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta, with Jamie Lee Curtis playing her sister and Ariana DeBose as her niece.Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 5 Dec. 2024
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Salem's focus on confronting a difficult history, teamed with clever marketing and the explosion of the holiday into a mainstream cultural force, has made Salem the country's go-to spot for Halloween revels.Mike Deehan, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
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The two animals are seen frolicking together through a field in the clip.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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On my most recent trip, I was enchanted by the sight of elephants bathing and frolicking in the river.Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 10 Oct. 2024
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But prior to its reference in the dialogue, Park wrote the title first on a lark.Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2024
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Though given that Agatha works best as a lark, sometimes the more committed the actor, the less successful the performance is in context.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2024
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The shooter, who was wearing a mask, fled the scene on foot and later hopped on a bicycle into Central Park.Nik Popli, TIME, 10 Dec. 2024
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The suspect then fled on foot to a back alley and then hopped on a bicycle in the direction of Central Park.Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
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“Gambol.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gambol. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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