curvet

verb

Definition of curvetnext
as in to prance

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  1. prance
  2. dance
  3. lope
  4. leap
  5. bound
  6. gambol
  7. carouse
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  • Her hope is that the Lions will let her tag along for a bit in a floppy throwback outfit, a living, prancing contrast to the mostly mediocre old days before the team was 12-1 and finding ways to win instead of inventing ways to lose.
    Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Brown broke free one play later and pranced into the end zone for a 31-yard rushing score.
    Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 2 Nov. 2024
Definition of prance
Verb
  • To boost your next-day memory, experts say to try brisk walking, cycling, swimming, or dancing to upbeat music.
    Lauryn Higgins, Health, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The first public drone display took place in 2012 when art and technology group, Ars Electronica, programmed 49 tiny craft to to dance and form shapes during the Futurelab festival in the Austrian city of Linz.
    Caroline Reid, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
Definition of dance
Verb
  • The little truck can launch off the line after chirping all four tires, but also cruises comfortably thanks to smooth transmission shift points that keep the engine at a low, loping idle.
    Michael Teo Van Runkle, Forbes, 14 Dec. 2024
  • Super speedy folks may need to make a few adjustments, and yep, using one might require a bit more mental toughness than loping through a scenic park or by a waterfront vista.
    Cindy Kuzma, SELF, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of lope
Verb
  • Marvell Technology leaped even more after delivering better results than expected, up 23.2%.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
  • More than once, flames leapt out of the ship’s skylights.
    Chris Wheatley, Longreads, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of leap
Verb
  • Bruins descended upon Eagles goalkeeper Izzy Sussman, prodding at her while the bright-yellow keeper bounded one shot off her toes.
    Gqlshare, Baltimore Sun, 3 Nov. 2024
  • The family sold the newspaper in the heart of western Iowa, sort of within the triangle bounded by Sioux City, Des Moines and Omaha, Nebraska, to Iowa Information based in Sheldon, Iowa.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of bound
Verb
  • The new brand’s packaging and visual identity – created by Mexican artist Francisco Herrera and featuring a winged spider monkey — evokes Kahlo’s exotic style, as well as her love of these monkeys, which once gamboled around her garden.
    Joan Oleck, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Those endless summer days spent watching Messi gambol around the football pitches of our souls?
    Jack Lang, The Athletic, 14 July 2024
Definition of gambol
Verb
  • From there, a series of scenes — a late-night house party full of adults drinking and carousing, a cascade of tinsel falling off a Christmas tree, a playground fail — replicate a you-are-there feeling as a preadolescent named Elwood Curtis navigates the agonies and ecstasies of boyhood.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Serving guests, some of them still carousing from the previous evening out, was never enough.
    Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 19 July 2024
Definition of carouse
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