to walk with high dancing steps in a lively and carefree or a silly and, affected, and self-important manner
prancing up and down, sublimely pleased with himself — Norman Douglas
of a horse: to move with a springy high-stepping gait
said of a horse:
to move with a springy high-stepping gait
to spring forward from the hind legs with the front legs in the air
prance noun
prancer noun
prancingly adv
[Middle English prauncen; earlier history unknown]