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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To bound or prance about in a sprightly manner; caper.
  2. v. To have lively or boisterous fun; romp: The children cavorted in the water, splashing and ducking each other.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To curvet; prance about: said of a horse.
  2. To bustle about nimbly or eagerly: said of a person.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To prance, said of mounts
  2. v. intransitive To move about carelessly, playfully or boisterously.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Local slang, U. S. To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. play boisterously

Etymologies

  1. Possibly alteration of curvet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • mnordenhake Then I heard my dream was back downstream cavortin' in Davenport,
    And I followed you, Big River, when you called.
    (Johnny Cash: Big River) Apr 16, 2010

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‘cavort’ has been looked up 3361 times, loved by 5 people, added to 57 lists, commented on 1 time, and has a Scrabble score of 11.