diff --git a/src/macro.c b/src/macro.c
index f44f5812..b2df4447 100644
--- a/src/macro.c
+++ b/src/macro.c
@@ -637,6 +637,18 @@ pic_macro_include(pic_state *pic)
   return body;
 }
 
+static pic_value
+pic_macro_gensym(pic_state *pic)
+{
+  static const char skel[] = ".g";
+  pic_sym uniq;
+
+  pic_get_args(pic, "");
+
+  uniq = pic_gensym(pic, pic_intern_cstr(pic, skel));
+  return pic_symbol_value(uniq);
+}
+
 static pic_value
 pic_macro_make_sc(pic_state *pic)
 {
@@ -898,6 +910,7 @@ pic_init_macro(pic_state *pic)
     xh_put_int(pic->lib->senv->name, pic->sDEFINE_MACRO, pic->sDEFINE_MACRO);
     pic_export(pic, pic->sDEFINE_MACRO);
 
+    pic_defun(pic, "gensym", pic_macro_gensym);
     pic_defun(pic, "make-syntactic-closure", pic_macro_make_sc);
     pic_defun(pic, "identifier?", pic_macro_identifier_p);
     pic_defun(pic, "identifier=?", pic_macro_identifier_eq_p);