as in to dance
to play and run about happily
children cavorting on the first sunny day of spring
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Or just pay close attention to the time-lapse footage of emerging cicadas or the cavorting manatees or the Darwin’s rhea, a South American ostrich that happens to be from one of the few species in the documentary that let males raise their kids.
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2025
The Recruit Netflix Ripley Years: 2024 Length: 1 season, 8 episodes
Creator: Steven Zaillian
The first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s infamous novel since Matt Damon and Jude Law cavorted around Italy stars the phenomenal Andrew Scott as the title character, Tom Ripley.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
For a year or two along the way, Dan's wife, Marilyn, wore a cub costume and also cavorted on the sideline.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
Some 500 of them cavorted at Frank Buck’s Jungle Camp on a humanmade structure called Monkey Mountain.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2025
The Recruit Netflix Ripley Years: 2024 Length: 1 season, 8 episodes
Creator: Steven Zaillian
The first adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s infamous novel since Matt Damon and Jude Law cavorted around Italy stars the phenomenal Andrew Scott as the title character, Tom Ripley.
—Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 19 Feb. 2025
For a year or two along the way, Dan's wife, Marilyn, wore a cub costume and also cavorted on the sideline.
—Neal Rubin, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
Some 500 of them cavorted at Frank Buck’s Jungle Camp on a humanmade structure called Monkey Mountain.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
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The film starts at a Mediterranean party resort, where British teenager Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce) joins her two best friends for a summer holiday of drinking, dancing and chasing the freedom that comes with youth (a la Spring Breakers).—
Travis Bean,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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Multiple stores have been getting facelifts, along with the area’s signature Boardwalk Inn. UCF’s downtown arts festival: Music, murder and dancing dragons UCF Celebrates the Arts, at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, features theater, music, lectures, art and kids’ activities.—
Matthew J. Palm,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 Mar. 2025
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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
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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
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The video cuts between scenes that are soaked in cold blue hues and others that are hyper-realistic, where the couple runs through city streets and frolic through parks.—
Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
21 Mar. 2025
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Neighbors drift from apartment to apartment, frolicking or fighting, partying more than working, as the day drags on like a high that won’t go away.—
Jordan Mintzer,
The Hollywood Reporter,
12 Mar. 2025
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This prevents the disease from hopping to other communities, Offit explains.—
Ripley Cleghorn,
Scientific American,
20 Mar. 2025
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In 2023’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder, a return to the franchise’s side-scrolling roots, up to four players can hop into a level, sharing lives and power-ups in one of the series’ most fiercely imaginative entries.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Eleven 0-0 draws — one every three games, in effect — is another telling statistic, especially remembering how Kompany’s team romped to the Championship title two seasons ago, scoring 87 goals in the process.—
Daniel Taylor,
The Athletic,
21 Feb. 2025
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That candidate would romp to a 538-0 victory in the Electoral College, but that election was obviously still very close.—
Nathaniel Rakich,
ABC News,
26 Nov. 2024
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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
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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
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Underestimating regulatory factors and skipping essential disclosures 6.—
Alex Kreger,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Do yourself and skip buying fluffy, heavy beach towels during the Amazon Big Spring Sale event.—
Amelia McBride,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Mar. 2025
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There’s enough material for a rollicking 25-minute short in Death of a Unicorn, which unfortunately spreads its goods out over the stretch of a feature.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
11 Mar. 2025
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Yet readers found his rollicking thoughts captivating.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Cavort.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cavort. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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