CAVORTING Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

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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

All along the far side of the canyon, a cluster of dots began to wink on, like fireflies cavorting in a field. —

New York Times, 16 Mar. 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

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Suddenly Bieber was dancing around, trading fun glances with his fellow-artists, finally gesturing toward the usually obvious fact that a concert might also be an uncomplicatedly good time.

— Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2026
Set the scene Arrive by car and enter the hotel’s main driveway to then be greeted by the resort’s grand Florentine Fountain with four sculpted water nymphs dancing around an octagonal pool, a visual amuse bouche to the opulence that awaits.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2026