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
  • But dancers take the stage too because when Cubans play music, there will assuredly be dancing.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, everyone in the main room is dancing under a glistening disco ball to the syncopations of Riva, a three-piece comprised of a psychedelic saxophonist, drummer and keyboardist.
    — Mary Carreon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of dancing
Verb
  • Kansas City answered on the ensuing drive, with a 17-yard leaping catch by Tyquan Thornton getting the Chiefs inside the red zone.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Co-branded elements include Jil Sander branding, alongside Puma’s leaping cat on the heel.
    — Stephen Garner, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of leaping
Verb
  • Engineers at the University of Washington developed DirectHop to explore whether hopping could offer small robots a practical way to cross obstacles without flying.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2026
  • From my little Brooklyn, New York abode, that generally means heading out east for beachy trips to Montauk, hopping around upstate’s Hudson Valley or Catskills towns, and taking advantage of ski mountains all over the east coast.
    — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 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
  • Some cases over the last month include a bear that entered an arcade in Fraser Valley, a bear that went romping through an Aspen restaurant, and attacks at a Rio Grande National Forest Park campground and inside a condo in Durango.
    — Christa Swanson, CBS News, 21 Sep. 2026
  • From there, the camera captures the lovebirds and their friends running through halls naked, romping around in bed, dancing, and drinking champagne in customary rock star fashion.
    — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 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
  • Brad Conley of Rogers has been sending us photos of bucks with impressive racks frolicking in front of my favorite stand.
    — Bryan Hendricks, Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2026
  • Similarly, Diana loved bringing her boys to the beach and frolicking in the ocean.
    — Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of frolicking
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“Capering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/capering. Accessed 2 Oct. 2026.

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