Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to gambol
Participle: gamboled
Gerund: gamboling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | gambol |
| you | gambol |
| he;she;it | gambols |
| we | gambol |
| you | gambol |
| they | gambol |
Perfect
| I | have gamboled |
| you | have gamboled |
| he;she;it | has gamboled |
| we | have gamboled |
| you | have gamboled |
| they | have gamboled |
Past
| I | gamboled |
| you | gamboled |
| he;she;it | gamboled |
| we | gamboled |
| you | gamboled |
| they | gamboled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gamboled |
| you | had gamboled |
| he;she;it | had gamboled |
| we | had gamboled |
| you | had gamboled |
| they | had gamboled |
Future
| I | will gambol |
| you | will gambol |
| he;she;it | will gambol |
| we | will gambol |
| you | will gambol |
| they | will gambol |
Future Perfect
| I | will have gamboled |
| you | will have gamboled |
| he;she;it | will have gamboled |
| we | will have gamboled |
| you | will have gamboled |
| they | will have gamboled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | gambol |
| you | gambol |
| he;she;it | gambol |
| we | gambol |
| you | gambol |
| they | gambol |
Perfect
| I | have gamboled |
| you | have gamboled |
| he;she;it | have gamboled |
| we | have gamboled |
| you | have gamboled |
| they | have gamboled |
Imperfect
| I | gamboled |
| you | gamboled |
| he;she;it | gamboled |
| we | gamboled |
| you | gamboled |
| they | gamboled |
Pluperfect
| I | had gamboled |
| you | had gamboled |
| he;she;it | had gamboled |
| we | had gamboled |
| you | had gamboled |
| they | had gamboled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would gambol |
| you | would gambol |
| he;she;it | would gambol |
| we | would gambol |
| you | would gambol |
| they | would gambol |
Perfect
| I | would have gamboled |
| you | would have gamboled |
| he;she;it | would have gamboled |
| we | would have gamboled |
| you | would have gamboled |
| they | would have gamboled |
Imperative
| you | gambol |
| we | Let's gambol |
| you | gambol |
Verbs conjugated like 'gambol'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'gambol'
bamboo,
gambit,
gamble,
gambrel,
gammon,
gaol,
jambok,
mambo,
rambolt,
symbol,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).
Sample Sentences
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The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled. [1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)]
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At our old pastimes in the hall
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We gambol’d, making vain pretence
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Of gladness, with an awful sense
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Of one mute Shadow watching all. [1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 48:]
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[…] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown. [1907, Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse, page 160:]
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And, in very truth, run and leap he did, gambolling wildly down the stretch of lawn outside the long window. [1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 139:]
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In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement. [1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:]
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[The whales] quite enjoyed themselves gamboling freely among the waves in the sunshine. [1948, F. H. Lyon, chapter 5, in Kon-Tiki, translation of original by Thor Heyerdahl, →ISBN, page 143:]
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Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows. [1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 259:]
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They were in the white wood / Gamboling out to picnic [2012, ミラクルミュージカル, “Murders”, in Hawaii: Part II:]