• (British, America) IPA: /ˈɡæm.bəl/

gambol (gambols, present participle gambolling; past and past participle gambolled)

1. (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
   • 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)

     The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.

   • 1945 August 17, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 2, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473 ↗:

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

2. (British, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.

• French: gambader

gambol (plural gambols)

1. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
2. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

• French: gambade