cavorting

[ kuh-vawr-ting ]
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adjective
  1. romping or capering playfully about; frolicking: Here you can see Arctic life up close—snowy owls, white foxes, cavorting polar bear cubs, and the amazing sled dogs.

  2. behaving in a high-spirited, playful way: During a game of musical statues, the shy boy stood motionless in the middle of the cavorting group.

  1. partying or behaving in an unrestrained way, often with the implication of sexual activity.

noun
  1. the act of frolicking playfully about, behaving in a high-spirited or unrestrained way, or partying, often with the implication of sexual activity: Recent reports of drunken cavorting with a 19-year-old model have damaged the mayor’s squeaky-clean image.

Origin of cavorting

1
First recorded in 1835–45; cavort + -ing2 for the adjective senses; cavort + -ing1 for the noun sense

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How to use cavorting in a sentence

  • I'd admire to see him cavorting around on the pinnacles after horse-thieves or whisky-runners or a bunch of bad Indians.

    Raw Gold | Bertrand W. Sinclair
  • And he didn't even feel tired, in spite of all the dancing and cavorting he had gone in for.

    Pagan Passions | Gordon Randall Garrett
  • But we got together on a compromise at last, and now hes in uniform again and cavorting around like a two-year-old.

  • Hop got him then; but the damage was done, and the visitors lining the gridiron were cheering and 194 cavorting wildly.

    The Turner Twins | Ralph Henry Barbour
  • When they reached the old honeybee tree, they saw Slab cavorting down to meet them.

    The Red Debt | Everett MacDonald