capering

verb

present participle of caper
as in dancing
to play and run about happily as summer drew to a close, the children spent their days wistfully capering on the beach

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for capering
  1. dancing
  2. leaping
  3. hopping
  4. cavorting
  5. gamboling
  6. romping
  7. larking
  8. frolicking
Verb
  • As skirts got shorter and the Jazz Age changed how women dressed, women wanted to show off their feet and looked for secure shoes for dancing.
    — Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 27 Aug. 2026
  • Repetitive motifs in various shapes were her trademark, resembling netting, swirls or worms, but most often dots, dancing proudly on her canvases or as sparkling balls or dots of light in her installations in all their vibrant, psychedelic glory.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of dancing
Verb
  • Anderson tipped his cap in the third inning after Arozarena made a leaping catch at the left-field wall to take a home run away from Cubs catcher Miguel Amaya.
    — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Moore was hurt pressuring Giants quarterback Jameis Winston and leaping into the air to contest Winston’s throw to the end zone.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of leaping
Verb
  • To descend to the pitch-black floor of a crater, Chang’e-7 will deploy a novel hopping probe.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Sometimes, that means hopping on a plane to London after coaching a Friday night game.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of hopping
Verb
  • Euphoric players cavorting in disbelief, long-suffering fans crumpling to their knees in tears, commentators’ voices cracking at the drama of it all.
    — Conor O'Neill, New York Times, 27 July 2026
  • McGinley photographed models cavorting naked (always naked) through sand dunes in the Mojave Desert and pine forests in Vermont, in a frigid ice cave in upstate New York and perched above a rushing waterfall in Tennessee.
    — Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
Definition of cavorting
Verb
  • The foundation's dogs typically eat about 10 metric tons (22,046 pounds) of dry food each year and spend their summers gamboling in the remnants of snow in the mountains before heading 40 kilometers (25 miles) down winding roads back to the kennel in Barryland.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 26 June 2026
  • Okay, so the cow immediately finds its baby, and then there is a BABY COW gamboling in a field.
    — Alice Burton, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2026
Definition of gamboling
Verb
  • There’s not a grapevine on the property, only horses romping in the pasture that can be seen from both customer settings.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 24 Aug. 2026
  • The Knicks had piled up massive scoring margins while romping through the Eastern Conference playoffs, then were just good enough in the two games in San Antonio.
    — Brian Mahoney, Chicago Tribune, 9 June 2026
Definition of romping
Verb
  • The Reting Rinpoche dispatched a search team of high lamas, who soon heard about a precocious 2-year-old who enjoyed larking inside chicken coops but also frequently spoke yearningly about making a long journey to Lhasa.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 9 July 2026
Definition of larking
Verb
  • The star took a break from basking in the sun and frolicking through the waves, lining up on the white sand in front of the ocean with her BFFs for a silly dance party.
    — Lara Walsh, InStyle, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Even the dreadful summer, when thousands of dead alewives washed ashore, couldn’t stop the O’Rourke kids from frolicking in Lake Michigan.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of frolicking
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“Capering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capering. Accessed 28 Aug. 2026.

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