prance

The kids prance around the yard quoting “Macbeth” a decade before he’ll stage it and Mescal gets to recite a “Hamlet” soliloquy as a little treat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Some people take this stuff way too seriously and kind of prance around the ring.

From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024

That’s why they were in position to prance jubilantly off the field when Dunlap thwarted Garoppolo’s fourth-down, last-gasp effort to add to the litany of painful finishes for the Seahawks this season.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 5, 2021

“Inside, Amber is actually a ‘My Little Pony’ cartoon, and if you watch carefully, she will prance around and sing and a rainbow will come out of her mouth and it’s great,” Davis says.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2021

In his mind’s eye, he watched a parade of Crabbes and Goyles prance past, all transformed into girls.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

Near a resort pool and on a narrow balcony, she prances around in a variety of adorable outfits including a pair of custom bedazzled hot pink heel roller skates.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

Mousseau said the team has grown close to some dogs, naming one Prancer because she excitedly prances around when she sees people.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

In The Unseen Queen, the BBC's beautiful documentary of family-filmed footage of the young princess, Lilibet prances and dances, pranks and laughs.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022

And sometimes Mitski’s charming prances around the stage in her flowy dress or pantomimed door-knocking in “Should’ve Been Me” warranted a snapshot.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

Scruffy, a checkered blue bow bobbing in his fur, prances up to the Four Paws Spa's arched grand entryway, where the Japanese prime minister's cat is secretly being held hostage by the evil Dr. Loofah.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Though Francesco is only a month into his journey as a traveling cast member, he pranced about the ring Wednesday with the confidence of a seasoned ringmaster.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

I could see his wild imagination at work and his interest in being an entertainer as he pranced around the house doing Elvis impersonations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

As a crowd of spectators cheered, some of the sheep pranced.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Ramirez’s 4-year-old daughter - who pranced behind her mother, blowing bubbles and popping the ones that landed in her brown curls - has a lung condition.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

The Wart pranced round the edge, waving his own spear in an agony, but there, was nowhere where he dared to thrust it- in.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

In some caves where enlightened paradise is depicted, it’s utopic: singers and dancers prancing in revelry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

The beige and blue mosaic of a prancing bull surrounded by a coat of arms is located in the city's historic 19th-Century Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II arcade.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

Yet the brand with the prancing horse logo took several years before deciding to throw its hat into the all-electric ring.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

Suddenly, the rock god who only three years prior hit his commercial apex with “Let’s Dance,” a master of artistic shapeshifting who pioneered music videos long before MTV existed, was prancing around with Muppets.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

Naka and Kapugen were on their hands and knees, prancing lightly, moving swiftly.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George