What is another word for gambols?

Pronunciation: [ɡˈambɒlz] (IPA)

Gambols are playful and energetic activities that are typically associated with children and animals. There are a number of synonyms that can be used to describe these kinds of activities, including frolics, capers, romps, antics, escapades, and horseplay. Each of these words carries a slightly different connotation, suggesting variations in the way that people or animals engage in playful and mischievous behavior. Regardless of the specific term that is used, however, gambols are generally seen as positive and enjoyable activities that can help to foster creativity, imagination, and a sense of fun and adventure in both children and adults alike.

What are the hypernyms for Gambols?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Gambols

While she watched their gambols, she was ever on the alert lest an enemy should approach.
"Stories of Animal Sagacity"
W.H.G. Kingston
Still, to me, the bird company, the sight of their airy gambols and their various voices, from the deep human-like dove tone to the perpetual subdued rippling, running-water sound of the aerial martins, must always be a principal element in the beautiful effect.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
Among the young, the gambols, races, and other sports were chiefly or wholly diversional, and commonly mimicked the avocations of the adults.
"The Siouan Indians"
W. J. McGee

Famous quotes with Gambols

  • Alas, poor Yorick I knew him, Horatio a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now your gambols, your songs your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar Not one now, to mock your own grinning Quite chap-fallen Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come.
    William Shakespeare
  • You frequently ask, where are the friends of your childhood, and urge that they shall be brought back to you. As far as I am able to learn, those of your friends who are not in jail are still right there in your native village. You point out that they were wont to share your gambols, If so, you are certainly entitled to have theirs now.
    Stephen Leacock
  • In the meanwhile I retire to my well-earned bath-chair, from which I shall watch with a fatherly eye the philosophic gambols of my younger friends as they dance to the highly syncopated pipings of Herr Wittgenstein's flute.
    C. D. Broad

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