(v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
(v. i.) To divert or amuse; to make merry.
(v. i.) To remove from a port; to carry away.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition, the static shearing displacement between the tectorial membrane and the organ of Corti, caused by the displacement of the basilar membrane, may partially decouple the hair cells from the tectorial membrane, an event that would explain the tinnitus, recruitment, and perhaps even the disportional loss of speech intelligibility associated with endolymphatic hydrops.
(2) But on the first of those two matches in Basel, the Germans fielded numerous reserves, Hungary won 8-3, and Grosics, for once not taking matters too seriously, was culpable on the last two of those goals, disporting himself outside the penalty box.
(3) By such an approach, where drug plasma levels are related to drug effects and to the pathophysiological condition, the significance of various factors on drug disportion during development will be better clarified, thus allowing a more rational and safer therapy in the newborn.
Gambol
Definition:
(n.) A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank.
(v. i.) To dance and skip about in sport; to frisk; to skip; to play in frolic, like boys or lambs.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grateful billionaires will come gambolling back to bring new business to Bradford and Bolton.
(2) They exhibit natural behaviours – they chew the cud, socialise, groom each other.” “It’s a perception that cows need to gambol in fields,” he said.
(3) In Derek Jarman's Sebastiane , the happy, homoerotic gambolling of naked Roman soldiers in the surf is undercut by the knowledge of the bloodshed to come, while the scenes of male lovers playing in floral nature in Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour are mere fantasies of incarcerated wretches.
(4) In retrospect, it all seems pretty logical now: straddled at the tail-end of a self-indulgent bout of thoroughly earnest teenage introspection, which had manifested itself through long solitary gambols over village greens; vague, confused affairs with willowy, callous girls; occasionally picking away tardily at cheap open-tuned guitars in an effort to “express myself”; studious, worshipful dialectics over the hidden gem-like enunciations on Blonde on Blonde – above all, that arch-affectation of the world-weary Misunderstood Youth.
(5) 7.55pm BST 8 min: Barcelona press forward awhile, Alves and Villa taking turns to cause a small amount of bother down the right, but Bayern are quickly breaking upfield, Lahm gambolling down the right.
(6) With the game drifting away Moyes abandoned the deep-lying trench defence, with Duncan Watmore providing some gambolling menace down the right.
(7) As he gambolled around the pitch he would flick V signs at the jeering away fans.