gambol / ˈɡæmbəl / verb intr to skip or jump about in a playful manner; frolic

In the early 1500s, English speakers adopted the word as gambol as both a verb and a noun. (The noun means "a skipping or leaping about in play.") The English word is not restricted to horses, but rather can be used of any frolicsome creature.

intr.v. gam·boled, gam·bol·ing, gam·bols or gam·bolled or gam·bol·ling To leap about playfully; frolic. n. A playful skipping or frolicking about. [Alteration of French gambade, horse's jump, from Old French, perhaps from Old Italian gambata, from gamba, leg, from Late Latin, hoof, from Greek kampē, bend (as in a limb).]