cavorting 1 of 2

noun

as in frolicking

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cavorting

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verb

present participle of cavort
as in dancing
to play and run about happily children cavorting on the first sunny day of spring

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Recent Examples of cavorting
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 Sea-facing rooms have views of passing ships, cavorting dolphins and the magnificent sunsets. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 June 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavorting
  1. gamboling
  2. dancing
  3. sporting
  4. hopping
  5. merrymaking
  6. leaping
  7. frivolity
  8. romping
Noun
  • But her gamboling merrymakers, hammy showgirls, and blithe flaneurs insist otherwise.
    — Jeremy Lybarger, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Definition of gamboling
Verb
  • Temwa Chawinga, who plays for the Kansas City Current in the NWSL, logged her fifth goal of the tournament, dancing around falling Algerian goalkeeper Chloe N’Gazi and scoring into the open net in first-half stoppage time.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Totality also brought glimpses of pinkish-red prominences—fountains of plasma arcing above the sun’s surface, dancing at the moon’s edge.
    — Claire Cameron & Lee Billings, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of dancing
Noun
  • Basketball and baseball were his sporting passions growing up in New York, before embarking on a 40-year career in the aviation industry.
    — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Beam family was at Raimondi Park sporting shirts with artwork of their beloved dad, husband, brother and grandfather.
    — Andrea Nakano, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of sporting
Verb
  • Tourists hopping between Greece's islands on high-speed ferries are reporting rough rides and brutal bouts of seasickness along the way.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 16 Aug. 2026
  • But word got out fast and by afternoon that day, the place was hopping.
    — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of hopping
Noun
  • Nor did great merrymaking surround its 2001 move to pioneer quantitative easing.
    — William Pesek, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • Once ground was completely covered with shards of tableware, folks journeyed from their seats into the center of the room for more dancing and merrymaking.
    — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 11 June 2026
Definition of merrymaking
Verb
  • Video captured a woman leaping from an 11th-floor ledge into a firefighter’s arms to escape a high-rise fire.
    — Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 17 Aug. 2026
  • On the play Dart returned, the QB escaped the pocket before finding Fields in the end zone for a leaping touchdown grab.
    — Charlotte Carroll, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2026
Definition of leaping
Noun
  • There is much fun and frivolity at the Witch and Culture Festival, but the event also acknowledges some distressing real-life history that goes along with being (or being suspected of being) a witch in Connecticut.
    — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Photographer Phil Oh captures the drama and frivolity in Paris as designers present their latest couture collections.
    — Phil Oh, Vogue, 7 July 2026
Definition of frivolity
Verb
  • 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
  • The outcome was one few anticipated, with Gray Davis romping to victory in the Democratic primary, then winning the governorship in a landslide.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 28 Mar. 2026
Definition of romping

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