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
Performers dance onstage, festoon the rafters overhead and cavort throughout the room in a 90-minute extravaganza.
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
Just a few weeks earlier, Miguel Angel Garcia Medina, 31, had been cavorting with his four children at their Arlington, Texas, home, meeting his 8-year-old daughter for lunch at school and giddily planning the arrival of their fifth child.
—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Monroe, Lemmon and Curtis cavorted there.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
As a member of the gentry, Thomas is crossing class lines by cavorting with the fishermen who work for his father-in-law.
—Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
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Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 Jan. 2026
Just a few weeks earlier, Miguel Angel Garcia Medina, 31, had been cavorting with his four children at their Arlington, Texas, home, meeting his 8-year-old daughter for lunch at school and giddily planning the arrival of their fifth child.
—Rick Jervis, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Monroe, Lemmon and Curtis cavorted there.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
As a member of the gentry, Thomas is crossing class lines by cavorting with the fishermen who work for his father-in-law.
—Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavort
Verb
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Nobody in my family liked to dance.—
Edie Kasten,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2026
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People have always listened to dance music of all kinds by themselves, but even then, some notion of communal experience is usually in the mix—a memory of parties past, a fantasy of one to come.—
Mark Richardson,
Pitchfork,
11 Apr. 2026
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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
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Know Them By Their Fruits, for example, shows people and animals gamboling among fruit trees, and The Bermuda Triangle of Nacogdoches shows planes crashing into the ocean, in front of a plat of the landlocked town.—
Benjamin Lima
Special Contributor,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Once completed, the $5 million acquisition will ensure the theater has a permanent home, a place where skateboarding clowns and leek-haired onions can continue to frolic and dance for decades to come.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2026
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This tray has a pattern of frolicking orange bunnies, interspersed with blooming pink flowers and soft green leaves.—
Sophia Beams,
Better Homes & Gardens,
1 Apr. 2026
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Some of Coachella’s most elite attendees won’t spend their day at the actual festival, choosing instead to hop between the many exclusive day parties, powered by brands like Revolve.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Like any well-meaning grifter, Anna (Halle Bailey) seizes the opportunity to hop a flight to picturesque Tuscany after meeting a handsome Italian stranger with an empty villa.—
Rebecca Aizin,
PEOPLE,
10 Apr. 2026
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In Wisconsin, where presidential elections are normally determined by statewide swings of 2% or less, Taylor romped to a massive win by racking up huge margins in deep blue cities like Milwaukee and Madison while severely eating into usual Republican margins in suburbs and rural areas.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2026
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Joe Timmerman | Wisconsin Watch | Getty Images Democrats romped to a 20 percentage point victory in a race for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, while Republicans won a special election for a House seat in Georgia by a far less comfortable margin than in 2024.—
Garrett Downs,
CNBC,
8 Apr. 2026
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The last-place Giants, who came in with a major league-low five homers, just missed a potential third long ball when Taylor Ward made a leaping grab at the left-field wall to rob Harrison Bader in the eighth.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Apr. 2026
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The effects of this unhealthy information diet upon Tillman’s critical-thinking skills leap off every page.—
Jonathan Chait,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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YouTube will now skip ads during a live stream if engagement begins to peak.—
James Peckham,
PC Magazine,
14 Apr. 2026
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Meghan, 44, and Harry, 41, skipped a traditional airport photo op, instead departing in a convoy of vehicles without stopping to pose for the press.—
Stephanie Giang-Paunon,
FOXNews.com,
14 Apr. 2026
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The rollicking collaboration serves as the official lead single for Shatta’s forthcoming studio album, currently slated for a fall release.—
Kyle Denis,
Billboard,
20 Mar. 2026
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The rollicking Bride of Frankenstein revision from director Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Jessie Buckley barely made it off the operating table with a $7.2 domestic premiere and $13.5 million abroad.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
8 Mar. 2026
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“Cavort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cavort. Accessed 16 Apr. 2026.
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