Cavort
verb
To jump or dance around happily.
The kids began to cavort in the yard when they saw the ice cream truck.
Often appears as...
- cavort around
- cavort with joy
verb
To spend time in an enjoyable and often wild or improper way.
He is known to cavort with dubious characters in the city's nightclubs.
Often appears as...
- cavort with friends
- cavort at parties
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
verb
To jump or dance around happily.
The kids began to cavort in the yard when they saw the ice cream truck.
Often appears as...
- cavort around
- cavort with joy
verb
To spend time in an enjoyable and often wild or improper way.
He is known to cavort with dubious characters in the city's nightclubs.
Often appears as...
- cavort with friends
- cavort at parties
Usage tips
Disapproving
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Joyful Movement
Used when someone shows joy through physical activity like jumping or dancing, often unplanned.
The puppies began to cavort upon their owner's return.
Pro Tip 2/3Playful Scenarios
Imagine children or animals playing. This verb fits well with light-hearted, playful scenes.
The lambs cavorted in the spring meadow.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Atmosphere
Use 'cavort' to describe scenes where the mood is upbeat and the settings are cheerful.
At the beach, the group cavorted under the sunny sky.
Pro Tip 1/3Joyful Movement
Used when someone shows joy through physical activity like jumping or dancing, often unplanned.
The puppies began to cavort upon their owner's return.
Pro Tip 2/3Playful Scenarios
Imagine children or animals playing. This verb fits well with light-hearted, playful scenes.
The lambs cavorted in the spring meadow.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Atmosphere
Use 'cavort' to describe scenes where the mood is upbeat and the settings are cheerful.
At the beach, the group cavorted under the sunny sky.
Pro Tip 1/3Joyful Movement
Used when someone shows joy through physical activity like jumping or dancing, often unplanned.
The puppies began to cavort upon their owner's return.
Pro Tip 2/3Playful Scenarios
Imagine children or animals playing. This verb fits well with light-hearted, playful scenes.
The lambs cavorted in the spring meadow.
Pro Tip 3/3Positive Atmosphere
Use 'cavort' to describe scenes where the mood is upbeat and the settings are cheerful.
At the beach, the group cavorted under the sunny sky.
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Video examples
Robert Muggah: How to...
and they tend to relate to increases in violence. Now, for those of you who are parents of teenage sons, you know what I'm talking about, right? Just imagine your boy without any structure with those unruly friends of his, out there cavorting about.
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How science & reason...
you can't just assert it any more also a lot of our moral improvement has come about from what I call the which theory of causality if you think that women cavorting with demons causes crop failures disease and disasters you're
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Killer Whale vs. Sea...
with they're still living victims are they just cavorting with their prize showing off scientists believe the whales are actually training for the more rigorous chases they'll have to make later in the year in the open field
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Terrified Monkeys Scared...
might get now know that there's a leper around and you might think therefore that they would flee but they don't they're advancing cavorting and that's because the leopard is an ambush
Video examples
Robert Muggah: How to...
and they tend to relate to increases in violence. Now, for those of you who are parents of teenage sons, you know what I'm talking about, right? Just imagine your boy without any structure with those unruly friends of his, out there cavorting about.
Video examples
How science & reason...
you can't just assert it any more also a lot of our moral improvement has come about from what I call the which theory of causality if you think that women cavorting with demons causes crop failures disease and disasters you're
Video examples
Killer Whale vs. Sea...
with they're still living victims are they just cavorting with their prize showing off scientists believe the whales are actually training for the more rigorous chases they'll have to make later in the year in the open field
Video examples
Terrified Monkeys Scared...
might get now know that there's a leper around and you might think therefore that they would flee but they don't they're advancing cavorting and that's because the leopard is an ambush
Example 1 of 4
Quote examples
Simon Beaufoy
British Writer
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
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John Niven
Scottish Author
We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.
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Manny Farber
American Artist
Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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Rhianna Pratchett
English Designer
Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.
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Robert Plant
British Musician
To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.
Quote examples
Simon Beaufoy
British Writer
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
Quote examples
John Niven
Scottish Author
We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.
Quote examples
Manny Farber
American Artist
Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
Quote examples
Rhianna Pratchett
English Designer
Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.
Quote examples
Robert Plant
British Musician
To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.
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