capering

Verb

caper (third-person singular simple present capers, present participle capering, simple past and past participle capered)

1. To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
   • He capered before them down towards the fortyfoot hole, fluttering his winglike hands, leaping nimbly, Mercury’s hat quivering in the fresh wind that bore back to them his brief birdsweet cries.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC
2. To jump as part of a dance.
3. To engage in playful behaviour.
4. (obsolete) To run at speed.
   • Then up Jack got.
     And home did trot,
     As fast as he could caper;
     Dame Gill did the job,
     To plaster his nob,
     With vinegar and brown paper.1810, Jack and Jill, and old Dame Gill, York: J. Kendrew

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