spry

The lean, athletic Mr. Herzog, 83 years old, seems as spry and eager as ever, and his global enthusiasm remains a force of nature in itself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026

“I named him the Visa God,” said Gopalakrishna, a spry 81-year-old who still works at the temple.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2025

As the last rays of the sun disappeared, Borys, a spry and upright retired colonel of 70 who served 30 years in the Soviet army stopped on his way to his car.

From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2025

Quan carries off the multiple full-scale, acrobatic fight scenes with spry, loose-limbed ease, even though onscreen, Marvin progressively collects wounds as casually as if they're Pokemon.

From Salon ● Feb. 7, 2025

The Norrey looked like some old fox—wrinkled and slight of build, but sly-eyed and spry.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Two tracks later comes “Hard Piano,” a collaboration with Rick Ross, who’s fresh off a health crisis but has rarely sounded sprier than he does here.

From Slate ● May 29, 2018

Though it has bad word of mouth, “Jonah Hex” is generally better, sprier and more diverting than most of the action flicks now playing, “The A-Team” included.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2010

They are younger, sprier, more active than members of the British House of Lords.

From Time Magazine Archive

And I'm a hundred times sprier than Broad.

From The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels by Arthur Scott Bailey

So we do believe you, Mr. Joseph … sprier than many an old 'un, I'm sure.

From The Harlequinade An Excursion by Dion Clayton Calthrop

He remains the Kremlin's jauntiest dresser and spriest waltzer.

From Time Magazine Archive

As an added turret he has Ann Pennington, erstwhile spriest dancer of many a Ziegfeld Follies.

From Time Magazine Archive

Your father was the spriest koind of a b'y, I'm told.

From The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys by Gulielma Zollinger

"They say that you're a great jumper—the spriest jumper in all Pleasant Valley."

From The Tale of Kiddie Katydid by Harry L. Smith

Most importantly, a noticeably leaner and spryer Trout says he feels better than he has in years—and it shows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026

A week or two dedicated solely to rest and rehabilitation could lead to a spryer Jaquez in the games that matter most.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2022

It’s spryer, friskier and, like the art of her old professor John Baldessari, it comes across its philosophical profundity partly through jest.

From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2020

Wrinkled and gray-haired, with a drooping face that seems designed for a spryer, thinner metal endoskeleton, Mr. Schwarzenegger, the no-longer-quite-so-muscle-bound action star, certainly looks the former.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 30, 2015

Aunt Puss was already at her place, so she was spryer than she looked.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

One of the world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted.

From Time Magazine Archive

Senate's spryest Democrats got set to observe high-seniority birthdays without fuss this week.

From Time Magazine Archive

It takes erudition, it takes nimbleness; but of both Mr. Schauffler has sufficient to jump over the conversational candlestick with our spryest informal essayists.

From Time Magazine Archive

To lighten the mood, by ones and threes the spryest fans took slides on the tarp, ultimately including a pretty girl in a pink dress.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yes, Rose," said Mr. Van Astrachan, "you mayn't believe it, but ma there was the spryest dancer of any of the girls.

From Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe