curvet

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Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

The horse, indeed, starts with his heels in the air, and will curvet and gallop and perform as many tricks as a tumbler.

From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert

The French called vessels of this size corvettes, from the Italian word corvettore, to leap or bound, from which we have derived the word curvet.

From How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 by Kingston, William Henry Giles

When the local was still far behind she would begin to curvet and take the bit between her teeth.

From The Biography of a Prairie Girl by Gates, Eleanor