gambol verb 1. to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic. noun 2. a skipping or frisking about; frolic. Examples: Two tuneful gamblers gambol across the country in a struggle for the money they need to run their respective casinos. They gambol and twitch, taking turns posing behind a colorfully framed, movable screen. In winter, a few deer gambol through crunching snow from the surrounding forest, sniff then retreat. It is practically the definition of a place where children should not gambol. Word origin: 1590s, originally gambolde "a leap or spring" (c.1500), from Middle French gambade (15c.), from Late Latin gamba "horse's hock or leg," from Greek kampe "a bending" (on notion of "a joint"), from PIE *kamp- "to bend" (see campus ).