Usually means: Playful skipping or frolicking about.
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  1. gambol: Merriam-Webster
  2. gambol: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gambol: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gambol: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gambol: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gambol, gambol: Wordnik
  7. gambol: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gambol: Wiktionary
  9. gambol: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gambol: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gambol: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gambol, gambol: Dictionary.com
  13. gambol (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Gambol: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gambol: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gambol: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gambol: Rhymezone
  18. Gambol: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gambol: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. gambol: FreeDictionary.org
  21. gambol: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. gambol: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. gambol: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gambol: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gambol: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. gambol: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gambol)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
▸ verb:  (British, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.
▸ noun:  An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
▸ noun:  An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

Similar:
rollick, romp, cavort, frolic, disport, caper, frisk, play, sport, run around, more...

Opposite:
crawl, crawl about, crawl around, crawl over

Types:
leap, skip, hop, skip and jump, gallop, trot, canter, gallop and jump, dance, more...

Adjectives:
many, squirrel, sportive, aerial, awkward, possible, dangerous, rural, joyous, savage, sudden

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Similar:
rollick, romp, cavort, frolic, disport, caper, frisk, play, sport, run around, more...

Opposite:
crawl, crawl about, crawl around, crawl over

Types:
leap, skip, hop, skip and jump, gallop, trot, canter, gallop and jump, dance, more...

Adjectives:
many, squirrel, sportive, aerial, awkward, possible, dangerous, rural, joyous, savage, sudden

Colors:
    sky blue,     lemon yellow,     mint green,     coral pink,     lavender, more...



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