as in to dance
to play and run about happily
children cavorting on the first sunny day of spring
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Recent Examples of cavort
As a member of the gentry, Thomas is crossing class lines by cavorting with the fishermen who work for his father-in-law.
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Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Inevitably, the moment that Margarita spies a hobby horsing class cavorting around a room in the local middle school will likely have a profound effect on the film’s audience.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 June 2025
In a space formerly occupied by the finance ministry, a towering glass ceiling shelters statues that once cavorted in open courtyards.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
Studying dust devils is about more than the wow factor of these wild whirlwinds cavorting across the landscape.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Inevitably, the moment that Margarita spies a hobby horsing class cavorting around a room in the local middle school will likely have a profound effect on the film’s audience.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 10 June 2025
In a space formerly occupied by the finance ministry, a towering glass ceiling shelters statues that once cavorted in open courtyards.
—Caity Weaver, The Atlantic, 5 June 2025
Studying dust devils is about more than the wow factor of these wild whirlwinds cavorting across the landscape.
—Amanda Kooser, Forbes.com, 3 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavort
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But only once has the mercantile danced with the affluent to such sensuous effect in the realm of fiction.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
18 Oct. 2025
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Sometimes that is dancing to music in my living room.—
Renée Onque,
CNBC,
18 Oct. 2025
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His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Oct. 2025
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An escaped pet zebra that went on the lam in Tennessee was captured Sunday after gamboling in the forest for more than a week.—
Theresa Braine,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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The trio lets their imaginations drift, stretching out ideas of structure and frolicking with unexpected arrangements, often midsong.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
10 Oct. 2025
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The sanctuary is home to more than 70 great apes, who frolic in a lush Florida jungle outfitted with climbing structures, swinging vines and numerous toys and enrichment activities.—
Martha Shade,
CNN Money,
1 Oct. 2025
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While the cinematic show in front of 70,000 fans went off without a hitch, some fans hopped online afterward to criticize La Flame’s punctuality.—
Mackenzie Cummings-Grady,
Billboard,
13 Oct. 2025
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Ingberg, 23, drove the sputtering car to Akeley, dropped it off at a mechanic and hopped in Hansen’s squad car for a ride back to his home in Wadena.—
Alex Haddon,
Twin Cities,
13 Oct. 2025
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The Dodgers have romped through this postseason like they were expected to do from March through September by winning eight of their nine games.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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Europe romped to a nine-point thrashing.—
Don Riddell,
CNN Money,
25 Sep. 2025
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If the Quakes win and any of those three teams lose, San Jose will leap that team in the standings after accounting for tiebreakers.—
Michael Nowels,
Mercury News,
13 Oct. 2025
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Grant was dazzlingly handsome, of course, but something else about him had leapt off the screen and captured her imagination.—
Adrienne LaFrance,
The Atlantic,
12 Oct. 2025
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Curriculums teach about the laws and governmental acts in place that withheld education and advancement from the enslaved, but skip over the intellect and radical acts Black people achieved anyway.—
Taylor Cassidy,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
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Apple skipped a major overhaul of its Vision Pro this year, but the headset is getting a power bump with the new M5 chip, announced today alongside a new MacBook Pro and iPad Pros.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
15 Oct. 2025
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Veteran director John Llewellyn Moxie delivers a rollicking 75 minutes of pure adrenaline, leaping seamlessly from spooky set pieces (some played brilliantly without music), vampire karate fights, and solid bits of character comedy.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Oct. 2025
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Wednesday’s sound is a rollicking meld of alternative country and noise rock.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Cavort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cavort. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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