The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.
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Gambol
//ˈɡæm.bəl//
Synonyms for "gambol" (80 found)
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26 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- подскок noun (instance)
- подскачам от радост verb (to move about playfully)
Dutch
1 entries- dollen verb (to move about playfully)
Finnish
4 entries- kirmailu noun (instance)
- kirmailla verb (to move about playfully)
- kirmata verb (to move about playfully)
- tehdä kuperkeikka verb (to do a forward roll)
French
2 entries- gambade noun (instance)
- gambader verb (to move about playfully)
Georgian
4 entries- ნავარდი noun (instance)
- ცელქობა noun (instance)
- ციგლიგი noun (instance)
- ხტუნაობა noun (instance)
German
4 entries- Tollerei noun (instance)
- herumhüpfen verb (to move about playfully)
- herumspringen verb (to move about playfully)
- herumtollen verb (to move about playfully)
Hungarian
1 entries- bukfencezik verb (to do a forward roll)
Irish
1 entries- pocléim verb (to move about playfully)
Māori
3 entries- tuapa noun (instance)
- tuapa verb (to move about playfully)
- tākarokaro verb (to move about playfully)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
At our old pastimes in the hall We gambol’d, making vain pretence Of gladness, with an awful sense Of one mute Shadow watching all.
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[…] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.
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And, in very truth, run and leap he did, gambolling wildly down the stretch of lawn outside the long window.
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