The word "gambol" is an accepted and used word in written English.
You can use it to refer to the activity of running, jumping, and frolicking in a playful or joyful manner. For example: "The kittens gamboled around the living room, chasing each other in circles and knocking over plastic toy mice."
For his own spectacular "Christmas gambol," Harlequin's Invasion (1759), with music by William Boyce, he wrote the patriotic song, "Heart of Oak".
Carlito's Way (1993), however, was a stylish (if somewhat familiar) gambol through New York's Spanish Harlem, with Pacino in top form as an ex-convict who is dragged back into the rackets by his corrupt attorney (Penn).
So let your imagination gambol about the hillsides!
In a couple of years, global warming will have ensured that all the ski resorts are turned into Sound Of Music camps where fans of the eternal musical can gambol and frolic in the warm Edelweiss to their hearts' content.
Today I received an email about someone's gardening progress this year; he said that he had taken a gambol with his courgettes.
After outcry, the zoo agreed that Knut would be hand-reared by zoo employee Thomas Dörflein, and hundreds of thousands turned up to watch the rugged keeper gambol with the cuddly beast.
Vollmond means full moon – which also means high water – and the back half of designer Peter Pabst's stage is a pool across which performers gambol or doggie-paddle, the women wetting their long hair to swing wide arcs of glittering spray, their bright silk frocks stuck to them like clingfilm.
While "The Muir" is set to Irish and Scottish folk tunes, they were arranged by Beethoven, and the lads and lasses of the libretto don't so much gambol over the hills as they go to war or get their hearts broken.
"We have to leave now! We'll buy you a toy!" one father says as he tries to maneuver his child away from the ball room, a glassed-in tank where the youngest shoppers can gambol.
Apparently, there isn't an open space in France or America that she can't gambol in.
Joyce was a singer as well as a writer (a tenor, he won a bronze medal at Feis Ceoil the same year that Bloom took his gambol) and he pushed language in many directions, including toward the sonic.
