gambol

Her puppies gambol around her, looking healthy and excited, but everyone else seems momentarily stunned by this story.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023

"They are dying so that you can gambol in your redwood cabinets," he said while addressing the government.

From BBC ● May 5, 2023

Concerns about health, safety and inclusion are driving new trends in the annual gambol of ghouls and goblins.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 19, 2022

Selections from Debussy gambol and ruminate; Higdon’s “Secret and Glass Gardens” moves from a guarded interiority to brash, attention-grabbing declarations.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2021

Mice gambol when their hereditary foe is slumbering; then, when the green gleaming eyes re-open, scuffle into holes.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield

“Where be your gibes now? Your gambols? Your songs?”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

And occasionally the actors play the text too loud, so to speak, but it’s forgivable, especially given the language’s perverse gambols — who wouldn’t be carried away by these lines?

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020

What’s left is a shimmering sensibility that gambols freely in a new age.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2019

Shirley MacLaine, doing her best Gwen Verdon impression, gambols onscreen like a giddy doo-dah, and then she does the same thing in reverse.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 20, 2018

Though others roared at Bear’s antics, this young man took offense at Bear’s gambols and, with growing anger, made three attempts to snatch his mazer back.

From "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" by Avi

Three dogs gamboled about as Kristof, whose curly hair is graying, spoke during the interview in a shed.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2022

They squawked and gamboled for the Chicken Shack dance cam.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2021

She gamboled along to the music on Cannon Green behind the iconic Nassau Hall and screeched with glee.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 14, 2021

Here, in the salad years, the movie greats gamboled … Laurel and Hardy, W.C.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 30, 2020

Monkeys swung above in the ropelike tendrils of the rubber-vines, and spotted deer gamboled beneath the shade of mango trees.

From Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines by Rounsevelle Wildman

Just before the hour the new man took possession on the left and gambolled across halfway, swaying mesmerically inside two challenges before exploding into a drive which crashed in off the bar.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 9, 2017

"My family seem incredibly relaxed with me," he purred, as two cubs gambolled nearby.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 12, 2013

But having been thrown a bone by his manager, Torres gambolled exuberantly after it, impressing with his work rate and movement in and around the box.

From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2011

In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into the air in great leaps of excitement.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell

McDonald is game for the high jinks but doesn’t always seem natural gamboling about the stage.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2025

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

She smiled approvingly at the gamboling dogs, the sweating men, the woman who had arrived for a constitutional in high heels and full makeup.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

Today they share their home with a puppy named Popcorn who loves gamboling about the green space.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 29, 2021

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

Barcelona may have lost their unbeaten record but they are still gambolling away with La Liga.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2018

And, if you dig the ship, check out the mother—the queen of the meanies, who rolls up late in the show, gambolling across salt flats toward a school bus full of innocent children.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 27, 2016

That’s a big ask, as you’ll know if you’ve ever defrosted a lamb chop and hoped to see it gambolling round the garden.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2016

The gambolling creatures we habitually count to get to sleep are recast as necrotic nightmares, a World War Z-style rolling wave of bad baa juju.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016

I leaned back in the embrasure in a more comfortable position, so that I could enjoy more fully the aërial gambolling.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker