curvet

verb

Definition of curvetnext
as in to prance

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for curvet
  1. prance
  2. dance
  3. lope
  4. leap
  5. bound
  6. gambol
  7. carouse
Verb
  • Hoping to out-Elon Elon, Gov. Ron DeSantis saddled up and brought out his own little DOGE-y last week, a prancing pony of an excuse for real governing.
    — Pat Beall, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2025
  • At times, the show subverts expectations, casting Salonga as the Into the Woods witch while Peters prances about in a red cloak as Little Red Riding Hood.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 14 Feb. 2025
Definition of prance
Verb
  • As Saxon removed his shirt and Lochlan sipped alcohol out of a shell, everyone danced under the boat’s red lighting.
    — Liza Esquibias, People.com, 17 Mar. 2025
  • For the first time since 2021, Boise State basketball will not be dancing in March.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 17 Mar. 2025
Definition of dance
Verb
  • Then, in Ebobisse’s place, the loping Giroud took one shot in his 11 minutes, the recipient of a drive and dish from Denis Buonga.
    — Mirjam Swanson, Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2025
  • How much of the floor could his team cover if no one ever loped back on defense and gave the other team space to breathe?
    — CJ Moore, The Athletic, 8 Jan. 2025
Definition of lope
Verb
  • Running around in circles Problems with denials are just the latest in an endless series of hoops that the SIV program forces Afghan applicants and American supervisors to leap through.
    — Beth Bailey, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Waterman smashed the ball past U.S. goalkeeper Matt Turner to seal the contest, then immediately leaped over the advertising boarding behind the goal and ran straight toward Henry, who sat alongside fellow broadcasters Kate Scott, Clint Dempsey and Maurice Edu.
    — Martin Rogers, The Athletic, 21 Mar. 2025
Definition of leap
Verb
  • There are frequent shots of monkeys around this season’s White Lotus, glaring on branches just out of reach, occasionally bounding down and startling the guests.
    — Joe Joyce, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The majestic views changed instantly after rounding a bend revealed an out-of-control fire bounding up the canyon.
    — Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Definition of bound
Verb
  • All the dancers make their way inside eventually, with the elderly Bolger doing his best to gambol along with them.
    — Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
  • 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
Definition of gambol
Verb
  • Its governor, Edward Jackson, was a close friend of the the Indiana Klan leader, D. C. Stephenson, a pudgy man with a reputation for high living, carousing, and trouble with the law.
    — Tara McAndrew, JSTOR Daily, 25 Jan. 2017
  • 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
Definition of carouse
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“Curvet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/curvet. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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