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gambol

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of GAMBOL

to play and run about happily <dog owners chat while their pooches gambol on the park's great lawn>

Synonyms caper, cavort, disport, frisk, gambol, lark, rollick, romp, sport

Related Words bound, hop, leap, lope, skip, spring, trip, tumble; curvet, dance, prance; carouse, revel, roister; carry on, fool around, horse around; clown, cut up; joyride, roughhouse, skylark; kite

Near Antonyms mope, pout, stew, sulk

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