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cavort

[kuh-vawrt] / kəˈvɔrt /


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Once that stops, the sheep open their eyes and cavort around happily as if nothing had happened.

From Salon May 17, 2026

The very first Christmas single is definitely scripted, but there’s still ample room for the four Beatles to cavort.

From Salon Dec. 23, 2025

Lucky loves toying with tires, and baby elephants, typically not chained in their pens, kick balls or cavort with the village’s stray dogs.

From New York Times Apr. 1, 2023

Look at them grin and cavort amid the food scraps in an activity that the movie will have us know tightens the familial bond.

From Seattle Times Oct. 6, 2022

They named him Match in honor of the occasion and sent him over to the barn to cavort with Pocatell and Seabiscuit’s guard dog, Silver.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Here he applies his rich baritone to the refrains of “Teenage Dream” as his newly invented character, Lance, an uppity French nobleman, cavorts friskily with old flame Angelique.

From Washington Post Nov. 27, 2022

Here, nearly every character in the movie cavorts among aisles of Hi-C, Doritos and Ritz Crackers while Driver and Gerwig pull boxes from the shelves with Busby Berkeley-level precision.

From New York Times Sep. 1, 2022

He cavorts on an Athens rooftop with Greek artist Eleni Mylonas, who is wearing a military-style jacket and a headpiece adorned with a tiny Statue of Liberty.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 6, 2020

Chad Kelderman is deliciously ridiculous as Olivia’s pompous major-domo Malvolio, and Eric Ray Anderson gleefully cavorts as the sly party dog Sir Toby Belch.

From Seattle Times Jul. 17, 2019

Up goes his head and tail, he buck jumps, cavorts, gambols, kicks up his heels, bounds stiff-legged, and generally performs like an irresponsible infant.

From The Land of Footprints by White, Stewart Edward

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, sentenced last year to 25 years in prison for fraud, cavorted with football great Tom Brady and spoke on stage with former President Bill Clinton.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 2, 2025

On “the beach”—an open stretch of snow between the parking lot and the lifts—skiers cavorted over pony kegs and hibachi grills.

From Slate Dec. 20, 2023

While her husband cavorted with Maurice Chevalier and members of the Beach Boys, Ms. Keane painted 16 hours a day in a locked room.

From Washington Post Jun. 29, 2022

He was born in Saint Denis, in the shadow of the national stadium, four months after another France team had cavorted around the pitch, soaking up the champagne and adulation.

From BBC Mar. 20, 2022

Around her, the theater crowd guffawed and cackled as three microraptors that had been adorned with flowers and fruits cavorted in ridiculous circles across the stage.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

On view were hastily brushed, large canvases of musketeers, toreadors, atelier scenes and cavorting couples.

From The Wall Street Journal May 7, 2026

The challenge for Democrats is that the district doesn’t just resemble Behn’s Nashville-based turf that features hipsters rolling their eyes at bachelorette parties cavorting on pedal bars.

From Slate Dec. 2, 2025

The official trailer for the sequel shows the chirpy red-capped Italian plumber cavorting with his friends and nemeses in a colourful intergalactic universe.

From Barron's Nov. 13, 2025

At the age of 80, he's still cavorting around the world, playing sold out shows, recording new music and even writing a book about his beloved model train set.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2025

It has roses on it and maidens cavorting in the glen.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt




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