spry

There is no trace of illness, or wartime privations, or even old age—just a spry, youngish man in a straw hat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

Pilates, once a week in L.A., helps keep her spry.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2025

“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

Art remembered when he had been more spry, remembered him pitching horseshoes at the Strawberry Festival.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

It was easy, in the daytime, for the squirrels to keep out of Fatty's way, when he wandered through the tree-tops, for the squirrels were much sprier than Fatty.

From Sleepy-Time Tales: the Tale of Fatty Coon by Bailey, Arthur Scott

How could he know that the mice at the farmhouse were ever so much sprier than he was and that they always trusted to their legs to get them out of harm's way?

From The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse by Fagan, Eleanor

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

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

From The Tale of Kiddie Katydid by Smith, Harry L.

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

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

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

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

And Ms. Bumby is spryer at spotting, and handling, celebrities than her partner.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2011

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

Highwayman Whitton is among the oldest of the Kennedy appointees, but may well be one of the spryest.

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

An' they're the purtiest critter alive an' the spryest an' the mos' graceful.'

From Eben Holden, a tale of the north country by Bacheller, Irving