To spring sportively up and down; to jump (with joy, mirth, etc.); to dance, skip.

intransitive. Of a living being: to move about swiftly, with a lively, irregular, or capricious motion; to spring, fly, or dart to and fro; to…

intransitive. To ‘leap’.

intransitive. To rush, move swiftly; to dash about. Also: to caper, leap, skip. Now English regional (northern) and Scottish.

intransitive. To move about actively or briskly; to prance or skip; in later use applied ironically to moving over the ground with effort or…

intransitive. To dance, gambol, caper. Now frequently with adverbial complement.

intransitive. To move lightly and nimbly on the feet; to skip, caper; to dance; †of a horse: to caper, prance (obsolete rare). archaic.

intransitive. To bound, caper, skip. Of an animal: to go with leaps and bounds.

intransitive. To prance (in various senses); to caper, dance; to parade. Formerly also †transitive with it (obsolete).

intransitive. To run and jump about playfully; to play, dance, or move about in a lively, happy way; to frolic. Now chiefly of animals or children.

intransitive. Of living beings: To move briskly and sportively; to dance, frolic, gambol, jig. Also with about, away, in and out, off, and to frisk it…

transitive with it. To move along jauntily; to caper, trip, skip. Cf. to trip it. Obsolete (archaic in later use).

intransitive. Probably: to prance about, to fool around.

To beat, thrash, belabour, cudgel; to beat by way of punishment, to flog.

intransitive with it.

intransitive. To leap, skip, caper. Also said of horses (and their riders); and figurative.

intransitive. To dance a lavolta; to caper as in the lavolta.

intransitive. ? To prance. Only in participial adj.

intransitive. In extended use (of any animal, or a person): to leap about, caper, prance. Frequently figurative.

intransitive. To move or dance about in a frolicsome way; to frisk. Of a horse: To be restive.

intransitive. To move about briskly; to dance, jig; to flaunt or frisk about: to be lively, frisky, or ‘jiggish’. Also to firk it. Obsolete.

intransitive. To dance or leap in a frolicsome manner, to skip for merriment; to prance as a horse. Also with about, away.

intransitive. ? To prance as a horse.

transitive. To make (a leap) in dancing. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To caper (as a horse).

intransitive (?) To prance. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To shy or be skittish; to move lightly and rapidly; to caper, leap, or spring.

to cut a caperor capers: to dance in a frolicsome way, to act fantastically. †to cut a caper on nothing: to be hanged.

intransitive. To dance, skip, or leap for joy, or with excitement; to exult.

intransitive. To leap wantonly, frisk. Obsolete. rare.

intransitive. To move restlessly, bustle, fidget: figurative to be fussy or restless, vex oneself. Also, to flinch, shrink. to fike and fling: to…

To run or caper about nimbly; to go or journey hastily from place to place. Also with adverbs about, away, off, etc.

To run, go, or move on with dancing or tripping motion.

intransitive. To prance lightly, caper.

intransitive. To curvet, prance, caper about, frisk, bound: said of a horse, or rider, and hence transferred.

? To dance about or round. Also figurative.

intransitive. = gambol, v.

intransitive. Of a horseman or horse: To execute a caracol or caracols. Often used loosely for ‘to caper about’. Also transferred of other animals.