cavort
verb (used without object)
to prance or caper about.
is cavorting
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present progressiveof cavort (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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“Feasting with panthers”— that is, cavorting with Douglas and louche company — opened Wilde up to blackmail, arrest and utter ruin.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2021
But Zink’s satire is cavorting on a racial minefield navigated more affectingly earlier this year by T. Geronimo Johnson’s “Welcome to Braggsville.”
From Washington Post ● May 12, 2015
He cares for Tommy even as Gillian is cavorting with Roger.
From Time ● Oct. 29, 2012
Meanwhile the real Goddess Diana is cavorting with a local shepherd.
From Time Magazine Archive
Let him try to join them, and lo, the games become a mockery, and he finds that he is cavorting still outside the walls, while the good citizens inside are making sly sport of him.
From The Court of Boyville by Lowell, Orson
