cavort

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /kəˈvɔːt/
• (America) IPA: /kəˈvɔɹt/

Verb

cavort (cavorts, present participle cavorting; past and past participle cavorted)

1. (originally, intransitive) To prance, said of mounts
2. (intransitive) To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.
   • 1900, Guy Wetmore Carryl, Mother Goose for Grownups, “The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet”:

     And dragon-flies sported around and cavorted, / As poets say dragon-flies ought to do; […]

   • 1911, Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark, Chapter XI:

     He whirligigged and pirouetted, dancing and cavorting round like an inebriated ape.

Synonyms

• (move about boisterously) romp, frolic, prance, caper

Translations

• French: cabrioler
• German: herumtollen, herumtanzen
• Italian: far capriole
• Portuguese: curvetear
• Russian: резви́ться
• Spanish: retozar, juguetear

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