gambolling

The word “gambolling” has 3 syllables: gam-bol-ling

It's pronounced as /ˈɡæmbəlɪŋ/


What is synonym and antonym for gambolling?

In the thesaurus, “gambolling” has 107 synonyms and 11 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for gambolling along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for gambolling

  • amusement
  • binge
  • bound
  • bounding
  • buffoonery
  • caper
  • capering
  • carousing
  • carry on
  • carrying on
  • cavort
  • cavorting
  • clowning
  • curveting
  • curvetting
  • cut
  • cut a caper
  • cut loose
  • cutting capers
  • cutting up
  • dalliance
  • dancing
  • delight
  • devilment
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • disporting
  • diversion
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • fling
  • fool around
  • fooling around
  • frisk
  • friskiness
  • frisking
  • frolic
  • frolicking
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • hanky-panky
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hilarity
  • hob
  • hobby
  • hobbyhorse
  • hop
  • hopping
  • horse around
  • horseplay
  • horsing around
  • impishness
  • jinks
  • joyriding
  • jump
  • kibitz around
  • kick
  • kiting
  • knavery
  • lark
  • larking
  • leap
  • leaping
  • loping
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • mischief
  • mischievousness
  • pastime
  • play
  • playfulness
  • pleasance
  • pleasure
  • prance
  • prancing
  • rascality
  • recreation
  • relaxation
  • revel
  • reveling
  • revelling
  • revelry
  • roguishness
  • roister
  • roistering
  • rollick
  • rollicking
  • romp
  • romping
  • roughhousing
  • skip
  • skipping
  • skylarking
  • sport
  • sporting
  • sportiveness
  • spree
  • spring
  • springing
  • tomfoolery
  • tripping
  • tumbling
  • waggery
  • wantonness
  • whoop it up
  • whoopee

Antonyms for gambolling

Meanings of gambolling

  • verb
    1. To move about playfully; to frolic.
    2. To do a forward roll.
  • noun
    1. The act of one who gambols.

Example Sentences

  • In the lush meadow, the lambs could be seen gambolling happily under the warm sun.
  • After the heavy snowfall, the children ventured outside, their laughter filling the air as they began gambolling in the freshly fallen snow.
  • The foals spent their days gambolling in the fields, their playful antics bringing joy to all who watched.
  • As the sun set, the puppies could be spotted gambolling around the yard, chasing after one another with boundless energy.
  • Along the shore, the seals could be observed gambolling in the waves, enjoying the cool ocean breeze.

On this page you'll find 118 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to gambolling, such as: amusement, binge, bound, bounding, buffoonery, caper, capering.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

dabbling

  • amateurish
  • amusing
  • antic
  • artsy fartsy
  • bare
  • cavorting
  • coltish
  • coy
  • crude
  • cut short
  • dallying
  • dawdling
  • defective
  • deficient
  • delay
  • delaying
  • delightful
  • delighting
  • devilish
  • dilettante
  • dilly-dallying
  • disporting
  • diverting
  • elfish
  • energetic
  • enjoyable
  • entertaining
  • faulty
  • fay
  • formless
  • found wanting
  • fragmentary
  • frisking
  • frisky
  • frittering
  • frivoling
  • frivolous
  • frolic
  • frolicking
  • frolicsome
  • fun
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • gay
  • goldbricking
  • goofy
  • green
  • half-baked
  • half-cocked
  • half-done
  • hanging
  • hanging about
  • happy
  • idling
  • immature
  • imperfect
  • impish
  • in the making
  • in the rough
  • incomplete
  • jesting
  • jocose
  • jocular
  • jocund
  • joking
  • kittenish
  • knavish
  • lacking
  • larky
  • lighthearted
  • lively
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • merry
  • messing around
  • mischievous
  • natural
  • not done
  • pixie
  • pixy
  • plain
  • playful
  • playing
  • pleasant
  • pleasing
  • pleasurable
  • poking
  • prankish
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • puttering
  • rascally
  • raw
  • recreating
  • relaxing
  • resting
  • roguish
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • rookie
  • rough
  • roughhewn
  • screwing around
  • shapeless
  • silly
  • sketchy
  • skylarking
  • spirited
  • sportful
  • sporting
  • sportive
  • sprightly
  • spunky
  • teasing
  • tenderfoot
  • tentative
  • toying
  • trifling
  • unaccomplished
  • unadorned
  • unassembled
  • uncompleted
  • unconcluded
  • under construction
  • undeveloped
  • undone
  • unexecuted
  • unfashioned
  • unfulfilled
  • ungifted
  • unperfected
  • unpolished
  • unrefined
  • unskilled
  • vivacious
  • wanting
  • whimsical

dalliance

  • a little on the side
  • affair
  • amorous play
  • amusement
  • binge
  • buffoonery
  • carrying-on
  • dabbling
  • delay
  • delaying
  • delight
  • devilment
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • dilly-dallying
  • diversion
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • fling
  • fooling around
  • friskiness
  • frittering
  • frivoling
  • frolic
  • frolicking
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • hanky-panky
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hilarity
  • hob
  • hobby
  • hobbyhorse
  • horseplay
  • idling
  • impishness
  • jinks
  • kick
  • knavery
  • lark
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • messing around
  • mischief
  • mischievousness
  • pastime
  • play
  • playfulness
  • playing
  • pleasance
  • pleasure
  • poking
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • puttering
  • rascality
  • recreation
  • relationship
  • relaxation
  • revel
  • revelry
  • roguishness
  • rollick
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • seduction
  • sport
  • sportiveness
  • spree
  • tomfoolery
  • toying
  • trifling
  • waggery
  • wantonness
  • whoopee
  • working late at office

dallying

  • aestivating
  • ambling
  • amorous
  • amusing
  • apathetic
  • apathy
  • arch
  • asleep on the job
  • backward
  • behindhand
  • bumming
  • careless
  • cavorting
  • chilling
  • comatose
  • come-hither
  • come-on
  • coquetting
  • coquettish
  • courting
  • coy
  • crawling
  • creeping
  • dabbling
  • dalliance
  • dawdling
  • decelerating
  • delaying
  • deliberate
  • delighting
  • diddling
  • dilatory
  • dillydallying
  • directionless
  • disporting
  • diverting
  • dozing
  • dragging
  • droning
  • dropping behind
  • drowsy
  • dull
  • easing
  • entertaining
  • enticing
  • estivating
  • falling behind
  • filibustering
  • flagging
  • flightiness
  • flippancy
  • flirting
  • flirty
  • flummery
  • folly
  • fooling
  • fooling around
  • footling
  • fribble
  • frippery
  • frisking
  • frisky
  • frivoling
  • frivolling
  • frivolousness
  • frolicking
  • fun
  • furloughing
  • futile
  • gaiety
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • game
  • giddiness
  • goldbricking
  • good-for-nothing
  • hanging
  • hanging about
  • hanging fire
  • heavy-footed
  • hibernating
  • idle
  • idleness
  • idling
  • inactive
  • inattentive
  • inching
  • incompetent
  • indifferent
  • indolence
  • indolent
  • inert
  • inertia
  • jest
  • jesting
  • joking
  • joshing
  • kicking around
  • kicking back
  • kidding
  • killing time
  • kittenish
  • lackadaisical
  • laggard
  • lagging
  • lallygagging
  • languid
  • languor
  • languorous
  • lassitude
  • late
  • lax
  • laziness
  • lazing
  • lazy
  • lazying
  • leading on
  • leisurely
  • lethargic
  • lethargy
  • levity
  • libidinous
  • lifeless
  • lightheartedness
  • lightness
  • lingering
  • listless
  • listlessness
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • lolling
  • lollygagging
  • lounging
  • lumbering
  • malingering
  • manipulating
  • marking time
  • mashing
  • measured
  • messing
  • messing around
  • monkeying
  • moping
  • moratory
  • moseying
  • mucking
  • neglectful
  • negligent
  • nonsense
  • out of it
  • passive
  • piddling
  • play
  • playing
  • pleasing
  • plodding
  • pokey
  • poking
  • poky
  • procrastinating
  • puerility
  • putting off
  • putting on
  • rambling
  • razzing
  • recreating
  • relaxing
  • remiss
  • resting
  • ribbing
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • sauntering
  • screwing around
  • shallowness
  • shiftless
  • shiftlessness
  • shilly-shallying
  • shuffling
  • skylarking
  • slack
  • sleepy
  • sloth
  • slothful
  • slow
  • slow-footed
  • slow-moving
  • slowing
  • sluggish
  • sluggishness
  • snail-like
  • snail-paced
  • snaillike
  • snoozy
  • somnolent
  • spoony
  • sport
  • sporting
  • sportive
  • staggering
  • stalling
  • stringing along
  • strolling
  • superficiality
  • supine
  • supineness
  • swanning
  • tardy
  • tarrying
  • teasing
  • temporizing
  • time-wasting
  • tired
  • torpid
  • toying
  • trifling
  • triviality
  • truanting
  • unambitious
  • unconcerned
  • unenergetic
  • unhasty
  • unhurried
  • unindustrious
  • unmotivated
  • unpersevering
  • unready
  • vamping
  • vegging out
  • volatility
  • weary
  • whimsicality
  • whimsy
  • wooing
  • worthless

gaiety

gamesomeness


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