Curvet

Quick meaning: Curvet is a verb meaning (intransitive) Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.

Meaning

(intransitive) Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic.

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To cause to leap about, dart or jump.
2. (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements.
3. (figuratively) (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic.
4. (figuratively) (of an object) To jump, skip, shake.
5. A prank; a frolic.
6. A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once.

Example Sentences

Gaily the grey horses curvetted to their destination at the church-gate, a laughter in the whole movement.

[…] flights of small, low-flying brown doves chased one another to and fro, and bee-eaters, emerald-green, curvetted like slow swallows.

Firelily, under him, seemed sexually aroused, she curveted and frolicked so about the line of march, covering five miles to the prisoners’ one.

[…] the upright leaden spout, curveting its liquid filament into [the well], is merely a representation of what the gardener himself, if called upon, could do better and more abundantly.

Word Forms

• curvets
• curvetting
• curveting
• curvetted
• curveted

Synonyms for curvet

Depending on context, synonyms include vaulting.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include vaulting, cavort, cavault, curl, capriole, gambol.

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