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Definition of "cavort" [ca•vort]

  • To bound or prance about in a sprightly manner; caper. (verb-intransitive)
  • To have lively or boisterous fun; romp: The children cavorted in the water, splashing and ducking each other. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "cavort" in a sentence
  • "We don't "cavort" a whole lot, but we do play hard and we don't stay home just because it's wet out."
  • "But I think part of the way he did that was, as David mentioned, these were not the typical celebrity spoiled kids who are allowed to go - allowed to kind of cavort and go out and do whatever they want."
  • "If you "cavort" on a beach without your top, you are "cavorting" without your BRAINS."