Definition

1. Verb:
   • To gambol, to frisk, to skip about: This term specifically describes the lively, playful, and often erratic jumping or leaping movements of four-legged animals, such as goats, lambs, or young deer, when they are excited or full of energy.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Những chú dê con đang nhảy quẩng trên đồi cỏ. (The baby goats are gamboling on the grassy hill.)
  • Cừu non nhảy quẩng quanh mẹ của chúng. (The lambs are frisking around their mother.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is almost exclusively used in the context of animal behavior, particularly for hoofed mammals. It vividly conveys a sense of spontaneous, joyful, and somewhat clumsy movement.

Variants and Related Words

• Nhảy (v): to jump, to leap. This is the general base verb.
• Nhảy cừng (v): a less common variant with the same meaning as .

Synonyms

• To gambol: To run or jump about playfully.
• To frisk: To move or leap in a lively, playful way.
• To caper: To skip or dance about in a lively or playful manner.
• To romp: To play boisterously.

Related Idioms

• While itself is not typically part of a fixed idiom, the behavior it describes is often associated with idiomatic expressions about playful energy, such as "full of beans" or "feeling frisky."