cavort

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to jump, dance, or move about in a lively, playful, and often noisy way

   Children cavorted through the spray from the fountain.

2. 2
   verb

   to behave in an exuberant or sexually playful way

   The tabloids photographed the actors cavorting beside the hotel pool.

First recorded in late-eighteenth-century American English as cauvaut or cavault, initially of a horse's lively movement. Its exact origin is uncertain, though influence from vault or curvet has been proposed.

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