cavorting
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.
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.
partying or behaving in an unrestrained way, often with the implication of sexual activity.
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.
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How to use cavorting in a sentence
No pictures of him cavorting naked in hotel rooms have yet been received by the Royalist.
Difference is, when her brother finds snapshots of Nadia cavorting on a Spanish beach, the honor of the family is compromised.
Want This Woman to Lie About Herself? You Can Just Burq Off! | Moral Courage | March 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHas the kind of cavorting the Secret Service engaged in while in Colombia ever happened before?
Senate Panel Quizzes Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan on Colombian Prostitutes | Daniel Stone | May 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe novel, about a young debutante cavorting in New York City in the summer of 1945, was finally published in 2005.
Jack Kerouac’s ‘The Sea Is My Brother’ and Other Lost Novels | Sarah Stodola | March 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTNot cavorting inconsequentially between consequential legislative votes and consequential congressional committee meetings.
The Anthony Weiner Scandal: C’mon, America, Nobody’s Perfect | Lee Siegel | June 11, 2011 | THE DAILY BEAST
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. SinclairAnd he didn't even feel tired, in spite of all the dancing and cavorting he had gone in for.
Pagan Passions | Gordon Randall GarrettBut we got together on a compromise at last, and now hes in uniform again and cavorting around like a two-year-old.
Baseball Joe, Captain of the Team | Lester ChadwickHop 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 BarbourWhen they reached the old honeybee tree, they saw Slab cavorting down to meet them.
The Red Debt | Everett MacDonald
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