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

Somewhere between Jacob Riis and Charlie Chaplin, Murillo offers a knowing but escapist prance through need.

From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2023

The performers joked with them and made sure to prance by their table during their numbers.

From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2022

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

Annie watched Guiteau prance back and forth in front of a mirror.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

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

Sometimes his comic instincts do pay off, as when Thor, Jane and friends crash a neo-Olympian, Vegas-ready paradise called Omnipotence City, where Crowe’s Zeus preens, prances and speaks in a hilariously awful Greek accent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 5, 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

I yell as she prances into the infield.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

Yet now the banners that flew from its battlements were golden, not black, and where the three-headed dragon had once breathed fire, now pranced the crowned stag of House Baratheon.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

Hwang gathered along with 30 neighbours for a session in August, practising how to pay hospital bills at mock kiosks, patting a prancing robot dog, or asking their phones: "Gemini, tell me about tomorrow's weather."

From Barron's ● Sep. 14, 2026

Earlier in the evening, she performed a brief, bright rendition of “Man I Need,” prancing in time with her band for a crowd dense with stars.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

The Luce "looks like anything but a car from the prancing horse", he added.

From BBC ● May 30, 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

“Fools! Fools!” shouted Benjamin, prancing round them and stamping the earth with his small hoofs.“Fools!

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell