Synonyms of prancing

prancing

verb

present participle of prance

as in strutting

to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements

pranced across the room dressed in an outrageous costume

Synonyms & Similar Words

• strutting
• stalking
• striding
• swaggering
• sashaying
• shuffling
• stepping
• tiptoeing
• mincing
• parading
• sweeping
• traipsing
• treading
• flouncing
• lurching
• padding
• promenading
• pacing
• staggering
• shambling
• pussyfooting
• lumbering
• pounding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of prancing

This prancing herd of wild mustangs can be spotted from the river, on a kayak or inner tube. — Madeline Gunderson, USA Today, 17 June 2026

The music video shows Rodrigo prancing around the actual Palace of Versailles, in a controversial babydoll dress singing about a boy looking like an angel on its walls. — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026

At a preview, the free-spirited French designer, who spent years at The Row before joining Hermès in 2014, spoke about the wide range of her inspirations while prancing barefoot in a makeshift showroom at a film studio complex in Culver City. — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 5 June 2026

Connecticut’s top Banana will be dancing and prancing from the ballpark to the ballroom. — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 13 May 2026

The Aztecs won 89-86 before an electric home crowd on a night that had 12 ties and 11 lead changes and seemed like five against six sometimes with the way UNLV coach Josh Pastner was prancing around the floor in a suit and tie while the ball was in play. — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Mar. 2026

In the album’s most beautiful moments, Triplin makes arpeggios sound like prancing through an earthly paradise and sands off juke’s rough edges to produce rhythms that seem to chug along in the margins of a daydreaming brain. — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026

Rafters-packed on the opening night of a quick week run of singing, joking and prancing through Segerstrom Hall, this show is a potent, cheery stepchild of half-century old Monty Python humor. — Christopher Smith, Oc Register, 18 Feb. 2026

Photos shared by the agency show Buddy prancing away in the daylight, as well as Buddy seemingly caught like a deer in headlights at night. — Brian Anthony Hernandez, PEOPLE, 8 Dec. 2025