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

Surreptitiously goaded by the spur, their steeds plunge and curvet, apparently progressing at a rapid pace, but in reality gaining little ground.

From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne

The horses of his body-guard began to paw and curvet to free their feet as the loose reins tightened on their necks.

From The White Blackbird by Douglas, Hudson

Well, he rode no less than three times up and down the same street, and regularly under a certain balcony; let his horse curvet so senselessly that one dreaded an accident every moment.

From Riven Bonds. Vol. II. A Novel, in Two Volumes by Werner, E.