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# gambol

«gambol» in Mova's school dictionary: **to skip, jump and play about happily, like a lamb or kitten** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (gambols, gambolled, gambolling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To gambol is to skip, jump and play about happily, like a lamb or kitten. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambol/#m1)

2) A gambol is a playful leap or jump (noun). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambol/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, young animals or children playing joyfully; «playful gambols» means happy games

### examples

- The lambs gambolled in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambol/#x1)
- The puppy gambolled round the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambol/#x2)
- The children gambolled on the sand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambol/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «gambol» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/gambol/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.