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
The figures stitched into the wall hangings writhed and cavorted, glimmering in the torchlight.
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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 16 Nov. 2025
Monroe, Lemmon and Curtis cavorted there.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
To match its maritime origins, it was incised with designs of cavorting Tritons and surmounted with a silver Neptune riding a hippocampus—a lot of gaudy ornament around a big brown husk.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 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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Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 16 Nov. 2025
Monroe, Lemmon and Curtis cavorted there.
—Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Sep. 2025
To match its maritime origins, it was incised with designs of cavorting Tritons and surmounted with a silver Neptune riding a hippocampus—a lot of gaudy ornament around a big brown husk.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 26 June 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
See All Example Sentences for cavort
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cavort
Verb
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To mark the third anniversary of his death, Holker in December shared clips of the pair dancing together and photos of them with their children.—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
13 Feb. 2026
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Hearts and flowers do not well dance with the sad music of tear gas and tears, tragedy and turmoil.—
Chick Pritchard,
Hartford Courant,
13 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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His nephew said that, for decades, his grandparents had kept alive a faint hope that maybe their hero son had just been captured and would one day come gamboling through the front door to the family’s Brookside home.—
Eric Adler,
Kansas City Star,
10 Oct. 2025
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The estate more or less promises an unlimited school yard for guests of all ages to frolic through and get all of their pent up energy out.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Feb. 2026
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The trucks hauling the snow frolicked in the water, sending dirty gray ripples toward me.—
Naaman Zhou,
New Yorker,
3 Feb. 2026
Verb
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Ja Rule hopped on X on Monday night to defend himself and explain what happened with the G-Unit crew members.—
Michael Saponara,
Billboard,
13 Feb. 2026
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The Step-Thru makes hopping on and off effortless, while the Step-Over offers a classic, sporty feel.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
13 Feb. 2026
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As a bonus, we’re rewarded with-sexy guys romping about in and out of form-fitting leather chaps and then in and out of tight wrestling tights.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Children romped around in the park’s playground while adults went from booth to booth speaking with various vendors and gathering resource handouts.—
Marianne Love,
Daily News,
30 Jan. 2026
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But in order to make good on the movie-ness of it all, Johnson and McCarrol leaped and ran and dived into the sky, all for the sake of booking a concert at the beloved Toronto venue Rivoli.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2026
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Should Ramona leap over Canyon Hills, the Bulldogs would line up with Valley League rival Fallbrook, although the section tries to avoid same-league matchups in the first round.—
Steve Brand,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Feb. 2026
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This influx of tourists and global attention is in part due to Bad Bunny’s decision to skip a world tour and set up a residency on the island, bringing in a record number of visitors and generating a massive economic impact.—
Kathleen Rellihan,
Outside,
10 Feb. 2026
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The ads, which also appeared on smaller local stations in addition to national broadcasts, also draw a price premium since viewers are unable to skip the commercials.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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One Battle After Another deals with all of those threads while also being a rollicking action movie with a sweet, gooey core.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
9 Dec. 2025
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This is a world populated by outsize personalities and packed with rollicking performances from Hawke, Keith David, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Kyle MacLachlan, and many more.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
2 Dec. 2025
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“Cavort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cavort. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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