capriole

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The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture.

From Time Magazine Archive

In all these hundred paces, while we have been watching him, he has not made one of those little caprioles in the air which are characteristic of his natural gait.

From The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

But joy over their success must show itself, and they indulged in all the fanciful caprioles of acrobatic aviation, spinning down in quick spirals, turning somersaults, looping or plunging in a glorious sky-dance.

From Georges Guynemer Knight of the Air by Sill, Louise Morgan

Young men and boys, on the other hand, play, according to recognized law, old, traditionary games, permitting no caprioles of fancy, but with scope enough for the outbreak of savage instincts.

From The Blithedale Romance by Hawthorne, Nathaniel