Definition of cavort in English:

cavort

verb kəˈvɔːtkəˈvɔrt

[no object]

1Jump or dance around excitedly.
the players cavorted about the pitch
Example sentencesExamples
- Its successful use of colourful counter characters such as Howard Brown, who cavorts to the music of ‘Sex Bomb’, has led to the expectation that Bank of Scotland branch staff could soon also become stars of the screen.
- A woman cavorted in the rubble in a ghostly dance out of sync with the throbbing music.
- She cavorts around in her pants with her imaginary hunk!
- The dancers below are leaping and cavorting around a great fire.
- Around him, the demons dance, cavorting, whispering, dancing, muttering.
- An exuberant Bertelli danced, sang and cavorted among the huge throng at the Prada camp.
- When the dolphins appear the passengers hang onto buoy lines and squeal with delight as the mammals leap and cavort nearby.
- With his schoolboy hips and abs to die for, Mick Jagger still cavorts, teases, taunts and leers in exactly the manner you expect him to.
- So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice ‘chick’ he could.
- There was the calf and the children of Israel dancing and cavorting before it.
- From a distance, the subjects resemble performers cavorting in a dance under stage lights.
- But for the occasional grumbling, the Deitelhoff children sang songs, danced and cavorted around the barn while milking cows one November evening.
- How the Italians cavorted and jumped for joy at the final whistle; how the Scots looked broken and demoralised.
- ‘Soccer’ is a sport where grown men cavort and prance.
- In the Dance section, both dancers cavort with foam-stuffed doppelganger dummies that allow them to dance with themselves or drag and pitch their partners into the wings.
- Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
- Sir Willard White was a superb Mephistopheles: his ‘Song of the Flea’ danced and cavorted, and he had plenty of menace when it was needed.
- The four spend the evening singing a bit, dancing, or perhaps more aptly cavorting, around the stage and impersonating the various types of their acquaintance, both male and female.
- People walk across the water; they cavort, splash, dance - and finally someone falls from a great height and vanishes entirely.
- The square was full of saints - cavorting, leaping, running, dancing, singing, screeching, chortling.
Synonyms
skip, dance, romp, jig, caper, cut capers, frisk, gambol, prance, frolic, play, lark
bounce, trip, leap, jump, bound, spring, hop, bob
dated sport
rare rollick
1. 1.1informal Engage enthusiastically in sexual or disreputable pursuits.
  he'd been cavorting with a hooker
  Example sentencesExamples
  He used amateur actors to perform the surreal scenes which feature naked young women cavorting on a double bed while a shirtless youth enthusiastically bangs away on percussion.
  In an incident that will have the manager fuming, players cavorted with dancers at the newly-opened strip bar, the Liquorice Club.
  It was here in the 1950s that the then Duke discovered a Polaroid of his wife cavorting naked with another man - unidentifiable because his head had not been photographed.
  From what I understand, having a beer can lead to such cardinal sins as dancing and cavorting with wild women.
  For the next sixteen months he lived a double life in the popular tourist resort, working as a bar man by day and cavorting with young women and prostitutes at night.
  Or go to your local nightclub on a Friday night - count the number of women cavorting about in bare midriffs, revealing necklines, and high-cut dresses.
  The constituency party was far from pleased to learn that its new MP, who was married with a small child, had been cavorting with women on Greek islands.
  Ironically, when it comes to the sexually active throng cavorting in today's media, married people -or at least people married to each other- appear to be in a definite minority.
  A source close to Leo, one of his defenders, says since all the shooting has been at night, it's unlikely Leo's been cavorting off-set, or in Rome, during the wee hours.
  They were being subversive and celebratory at the same time and there was also something rawly sexual about this gaggle of half-drowned young people cavorting and hugging and splashing in the mud.
  No late-night revelling, no booze-ups, no cavorting with local ladies: these are the usual diktats dispatched to players by their national coaches at World Cup time.
  Ibiza, of course, tends to attract those who actively seek public attention - why else would minor stars spend their nights cavorting on the dance floors of the island's mega nightclubs?
  He's been up all night cavorting with models (or so my puerile mind imagines) and now he's watching telly while I'm working.
  She cuts loose at night however, cavorting around town with her boyfriend and perfecting the art of ‘swinging,’ i.e. sharing their beds with other couples.
  Are you stuck away in your booth, while kids half your age cavort the night away?
  Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue.
  The gang of 25 youngsters, thought to be no older than 15, were seen and heard, drinking and cavorting at the Kings Meadow Road playing field, from 7.30 pm onwards on Friday.
  Maybe when they choose their next leader they will select one who will not cavort like a buffoon with football fans.
  They appear to be sexual predators, ready to leap from the interior, domestic space to cavort lasciviously in the external realm of military men.
  The film helps debunk a recent media report that many of the players were banished to mines and farms for cavorting at a ‘wild party with foreign ladies’ before their defeat by Portugal.

Origin

Late 18th century (originally US): perhaps an alteration of curvet.

Rhymes

abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought

Definition of cavort in US English:

cavort

verbkəˈvɔrtkəˈvôrt

[no object]

1Jump or dance around excitedly.
spider monkeys leap and cavort in the branches
Example sentencesExamples
- So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice ‘chick’ he could.
- How the Italians cavorted and jumped for joy at the final whistle; how the Scots looked broken and demoralised.
- When the dolphins appear the passengers hang onto buoy lines and squeal with delight as the mammals leap and cavort nearby.
- People walk across the water; they cavort, splash, dance - and finally someone falls from a great height and vanishes entirely.
- In the Dance section, both dancers cavort with foam-stuffed doppelganger dummies that allow them to dance with themselves or drag and pitch their partners into the wings.
- With his schoolboy hips and abs to die for, Mick Jagger still cavorts, teases, taunts and leers in exactly the manner you expect him to.
- There was the calf and the children of Israel dancing and cavorting before it.
- ‘Soccer’ is a sport where grown men cavort and prance.
- From a distance, the subjects resemble performers cavorting in a dance under stage lights.
- The four spend the evening singing a bit, dancing, or perhaps more aptly cavorting, around the stage and impersonating the various types of their acquaintance, both male and female.
- Around him, the demons dance, cavorting, whispering, dancing, muttering.
- The dancers below are leaping and cavorting around a great fire.
- But for the occasional grumbling, the Deitelhoff children sang songs, danced and cavorted around the barn while milking cows one November evening.
- Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment.
- The square was full of saints - cavorting, leaping, running, dancing, singing, screeching, chortling.
- A woman cavorted in the rubble in a ghostly dance out of sync with the throbbing music.
- Its successful use of colourful counter characters such as Howard Brown, who cavorts to the music of ‘Sex Bomb’, has led to the expectation that Bank of Scotland branch staff could soon also become stars of the screen.
- She cavorts around in her pants with her imaginary hunk!
- Sir Willard White was a superb Mephistopheles: his ‘Song of the Flea’ danced and cavorted, and he had plenty of menace when it was needed.
- An exuberant Bertelli danced, sang and cavorted among the huge throng at the Prada camp.
Synonyms
skip, dance, romp, jig, caper, cut capers, frisk, gambol, prance, frolic, play, lark
1. 1.1informal Apply oneself enthusiastically to sexual or disreputable pursuits.
  he spent his nights cavorting with the glitterati
  Example sentencesExamples
  Maybe when they choose their next leader they will select one who will not cavort like a buffoon with football fans.
  From what I understand, having a beer can lead to such cardinal sins as dancing and cavorting with wild women.
  No late-night revelling, no booze-ups, no cavorting with local ladies: these are the usual diktats dispatched to players by their national coaches at World Cup time.
  The gang of 25 youngsters, thought to be no older than 15, were seen and heard, drinking and cavorting at the Kings Meadow Road playing field, from 7.30 pm onwards on Friday.
  Are you stuck away in your booth, while kids half your age cavort the night away?
  Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue.
  In an incident that will have the manager fuming, players cavorted with dancers at the newly-opened strip bar, the Liquorice Club.
  She cuts loose at night however, cavorting around town with her boyfriend and perfecting the art of ‘swinging,’ i.e. sharing their beds with other couples.
  He used amateur actors to perform the surreal scenes which feature naked young women cavorting on a double bed while a shirtless youth enthusiastically bangs away on percussion.
  They were being subversive and celebratory at the same time and there was also something rawly sexual about this gaggle of half-drowned young people cavorting and hugging and splashing in the mud.
  A source close to Leo, one of his defenders, says since all the shooting has been at night, it's unlikely Leo's been cavorting off-set, or in Rome, during the wee hours.
  He's been up all night cavorting with models (or so my puerile mind imagines) and now he's watching telly while I'm working.
  The constituency party was far from pleased to learn that its new MP, who was married with a small child, had been cavorting with women on Greek islands.
  They appear to be sexual predators, ready to leap from the interior, domestic space to cavort lasciviously in the external realm of military men.
  Ibiza, of course, tends to attract those who actively seek public attention - why else would minor stars spend their nights cavorting on the dance floors of the island's mega nightclubs?
  Or go to your local nightclub on a Friday night - count the number of women cavorting about in bare midriffs, revealing necklines, and high-cut dresses.
  It was here in the 1950s that the then Duke discovered a Polaroid of his wife cavorting naked with another man - unidentifiable because his head had not been photographed.
  For the next sixteen months he lived a double life in the popular tourist resort, working as a bar man by day and cavorting with young women and prostitutes at night.
  Ironically, when it comes to the sexually active throng cavorting in today's media, married people -or at least people married to each other- appear to be in a definite minority.
  The film helps debunk a recent media report that many of the players were banished to mines and farms for cavorting at a ‘wild party with foreign ladies’ before their defeat by Portugal.

Origin

Late 18th century (originally US): perhaps an alteration of curvet.

单词	cavort
释义	Definition of cavort in English: cavort verb kəˈvɔːtkəˈvɔrt [no object] 1Jump or dance around excitedly. the players cavorted about the pitch Example sentencesExamples Its successful use of colourful counter characters such as Howard Brown, who cavorts to the music of ‘Sex Bomb’, has led to the expectation that Bank of Scotland branch staff could soon also become stars of the screen. A woman cavorted in the rubble in a ghostly dance out of sync with the throbbing music. She cavorts around in her pants with her imaginary hunk! The dancers below are leaping and cavorting around a great fire. Around him, the demons dance, cavorting, whispering, dancing, muttering. An exuberant Bertelli danced, sang and cavorted among the huge throng at the Prada camp. When the dolphins appear the passengers hang onto buoy lines and squeal with delight as the mammals leap and cavort nearby. With his schoolboy hips and abs to die for, Mick Jagger still cavorts, teases, taunts and leers in exactly the manner you expect him to. So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice ‘chick’ he could. There was the calf and the children of Israel dancing and cavorting before it. From a distance, the subjects resemble performers cavorting in a dance under stage lights. But for the occasional grumbling, the Deitelhoff children sang songs, danced and cavorted around the barn while milking cows one November evening. How the Italians cavorted and jumped for joy at the final whistle; how the Scots looked broken and demoralised. ‘Soccer’ is a sport where grown men cavort and prance. In the Dance section, both dancers cavort with foam-stuffed doppelganger dummies that allow them to dance with themselves or drag and pitch their partners into the wings. Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment. Sir Willard White was a superb Mephistopheles: his ‘Song of the Flea’ danced and cavorted, and he had plenty of menace when it was needed. The four spend the evening singing a bit, dancing, or perhaps more aptly cavorting, around the stage and impersonating the various types of their acquaintance, both male and female. People walk across the water; they cavort, splash, dance - and finally someone falls from a great height and vanishes entirely. The square was full of saints - cavorting, leaping, running, dancing, singing, screeching, chortling. Synonyms skip, dance, romp, jig, caper, cut capers, frisk, gambol, prance, frolic, play, lark bounce, trip, leap, jump, bound, spring, hop, bob dated sport rare rollick 1.1informal Engage enthusiastically in sexual or disreputable pursuits. he'd been cavorting with a hooker Example sentencesExamples He used amateur actors to perform the surreal scenes which feature naked young women cavorting on a double bed while a shirtless youth enthusiastically bangs away on percussion. In an incident that will have the manager fuming, players cavorted with dancers at the newly-opened strip bar, the Liquorice Club. It was here in the 1950s that the then Duke discovered a Polaroid of his wife cavorting naked with another man - unidentifiable because his head had not been photographed. From what I understand, having a beer can lead to such cardinal sins as dancing and cavorting with wild women. For the next sixteen months he lived a double life in the popular tourist resort, working as a bar man by day and cavorting with young women and prostitutes at night. Or go to your local nightclub on a Friday night - count the number of women cavorting about in bare midriffs, revealing necklines, and high-cut dresses. The constituency party was far from pleased to learn that its new MP, who was married with a small child, had been cavorting with women on Greek islands. Ironically, when it comes to the sexually active throng cavorting in today's media, married people -or at least people married to each other- appear to be in a definite minority. A source close to Leo, one of his defenders, says since all the shooting has been at night, it's unlikely Leo's been cavorting off-set, or in Rome, during the wee hours. They were being subversive and celebratory at the same time and there was also something rawly sexual about this gaggle of half-drowned young people cavorting and hugging and splashing in the mud. No late-night revelling, no booze-ups, no cavorting with local ladies: these are the usual diktats dispatched to players by their national coaches at World Cup time. Ibiza, of course, tends to attract those who actively seek public attention - why else would minor stars spend their nights cavorting on the dance floors of the island's mega nightclubs? He's been up all night cavorting with models (or so my puerile mind imagines) and now he's watching telly while I'm working. She cuts loose at night however, cavorting around town with her boyfriend and perfecting the art of ‘swinging,’ i.e. sharing their beds with other couples. Are you stuck away in your booth, while kids half your age cavort the night away? Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue. The gang of 25 youngsters, thought to be no older than 15, were seen and heard, drinking and cavorting at the Kings Meadow Road playing field, from 7.30 pm onwards on Friday. Maybe when they choose their next leader they will select one who will not cavort like a buffoon with football fans. They appear to be sexual predators, ready to leap from the interior, domestic space to cavort lasciviously in the external realm of military men. The film helps debunk a recent media report that many of the players were banished to mines and farms for cavorting at a ‘wild party with foreign ladies’ before their defeat by Portugal. Origin Late 18th century (originally US): perhaps an alteration of curvet. Rhymes abort, apport, assort, athwart, aught, besought, bethought, bort, bought, brought, caught, comport, consort, contort, Cort, court, distraught, escort, exhort, export, extort, fort, fought, fraught, import, methought, misreport, mort, naught, nought, Oort, ought, outfought, port, Porte, purport, quart, rort, short, snort, sort, sought, sport, support, swart, taught, taut, thought, thwart, tort, transport, wart, wrought Definition of cavort in US English: cavort verbkəˈvɔrtkəˈvôrt [no object] 1Jump or dance around excitedly. spider monkeys leap and cavort in the branches Example sentencesExamples So she joined the party and soon spotted her husband in his costume, cavorting around on the dance floor, dancing with every nice ‘chick’ he could. How the Italians cavorted and jumped for joy at the final whistle; how the Scots looked broken and demoralised. When the dolphins appear the passengers hang onto buoy lines and squeal with delight as the mammals leap and cavort nearby. People walk across the water; they cavort, splash, dance - and finally someone falls from a great height and vanishes entirely. In the Dance section, both dancers cavort with foam-stuffed doppelganger dummies that allow them to dance with themselves or drag and pitch their partners into the wings. With his schoolboy hips and abs to die for, Mick Jagger still cavorts, teases, taunts and leers in exactly the manner you expect him to. There was the calf and the children of Israel dancing and cavorting before it. ‘Soccer’ is a sport where grown men cavort and prance. From a distance, the subjects resemble performers cavorting in a dance under stage lights. The four spend the evening singing a bit, dancing, or perhaps more aptly cavorting, around the stage and impersonating the various types of their acquaintance, both male and female. Around him, the demons dance, cavorting, whispering, dancing, muttering. The dancers below are leaping and cavorting around a great fire. But for the occasional grumbling, the Deitelhoff children sang songs, danced and cavorted around the barn while milking cows one November evening. Her dance cavorts playfully between elegance and tease; a spin of the sari around her, and her perfectly toned midriff is exposed but for a swift moment. The square was full of saints - cavorting, leaping, running, dancing, singing, screeching, chortling. A woman cavorted in the rubble in a ghostly dance out of sync with the throbbing music. Its successful use of colourful counter characters such as Howard Brown, who cavorts to the music of ‘Sex Bomb’, has led to the expectation that Bank of Scotland branch staff could soon also become stars of the screen. She cavorts around in her pants with her imaginary hunk! Sir Willard White was a superb Mephistopheles: his ‘Song of the Flea’ danced and cavorted, and he had plenty of menace when it was needed. An exuberant Bertelli danced, sang and cavorted among the huge throng at the Prada camp. Synonyms skip, dance, romp, jig, caper, cut capers, frisk, gambol, prance, frolic, play, lark 1.1informal Apply oneself enthusiastically to sexual or disreputable pursuits. he spent his nights cavorting with the glitterati Example sentencesExamples Maybe when they choose their next leader they will select one who will not cavort like a buffoon with football fans. From what I understand, having a beer can lead to such cardinal sins as dancing and cavorting with wild women. No late-night revelling, no booze-ups, no cavorting with local ladies: these are the usual diktats dispatched to players by their national coaches at World Cup time. The gang of 25 youngsters, thought to be no older than 15, were seen and heard, drinking and cavorting at the Kings Meadow Road playing field, from 7.30 pm onwards on Friday. Are you stuck away in your booth, while kids half your age cavort the night away? Funloving hedonists who have spent three years doing nothing but drinking and cavorting in seedy nightclubs suddenly become paragons of academic virtue. In an incident that will have the manager fuming, players cavorted with dancers at the newly-opened strip bar, the Liquorice Club. She cuts loose at night however, cavorting around town with her boyfriend and perfecting the art of ‘swinging,’ i.e. sharing their beds with other couples. He used amateur actors to perform the surreal scenes which feature naked young women cavorting on a double bed while a shirtless youth enthusiastically bangs away on percussion. They were being subversive and celebratory at the same time and there was also something rawly sexual about this gaggle of half-drowned young people cavorting and hugging and splashing in the mud. A source close to Leo, one of his defenders, says since all the shooting has been at night, it's unlikely Leo's been cavorting off-set, or in Rome, during the wee hours. He's been up all night cavorting with models (or so my puerile mind imagines) and now he's watching telly while I'm working. The constituency party was far from pleased to learn that its new MP, who was married with a small child, had been cavorting with women on Greek islands. They appear to be sexual predators, ready to leap from the interior, domestic space to cavort lasciviously in the external realm of military men. Ibiza, of course, tends to attract those who actively seek public attention - why else would minor stars spend their nights cavorting on the dance floors of the island's mega nightclubs? Or go to your local nightclub on a Friday night - count the number of women cavorting about in bare midriffs, revealing necklines, and high-cut dresses. It was here in the 1950s that the then Duke discovered a Polaroid of his wife cavorting naked with another man - unidentifiable because his head had not been photographed. For the next sixteen months he lived a double life in the popular tourist resort, working as a bar man by day and cavorting with young women and prostitutes at night. Ironically, when it comes to the sexually active throng cavorting in today's media, married people -or at least people married to each other- appear to be in a definite minority. The film helps debunk a recent media report that many of the players were banished to mines and farms for cavorting at a ‘wild party with foreign ladies’ before their defeat by Portugal. Origin Late 18th century (originally US): perhaps an alteration of curvet.
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