as in to dance
to play and run about happily
children cavorting on the first sunny day of spring
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The lower section, now in the Correr Museum in Venice, shows two courtesans sitting on a balcony overlooking the lagoon where the hunters cavort, a vase perched on the ledge with a telltale flowerless stem rising from it.
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
Why this is the case soon becomes clear when a car bomb nearly kills a local politician, who shows up at the villa afterwards to cavort with the mobsters.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
Rogowski, who threw a mean shape or two in such films as Disco Boy and Passages, also contributes a very physical performance, cavorting around Gravesend like a shy woodland faun or fowl.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
Young aspirants populate the hipster Northeast, writers cavort in Silver Lake and Los Feliz, and actors climb the hills of Hollywood.
—Boris Kachka, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
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Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2024
Why this is the case soon becomes clear when a car bomb nearly kills a local politician, who shows up at the villa afterwards to cavort with the mobsters.
—Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
Rogowski, who threw a mean shape or two in such films as Disco Boy and Passages, also contributes a very physical performance, cavorting around Gravesend like a shy woodland faun or fowl.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
Young aspirants populate the hipster Northeast, writers cavort in Silver Lake and Los Feliz, and actors climb the hills of Hollywood.
—Boris Kachka, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
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