bounding

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Normally those events are covered by the Lord Lieutenant, but he came bounding out larger than life.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

The last decade has seen a harlequinade of big shots, celebrities, pundits and politicians bounding across the proscenium wearing stage makeup and playing different characters successively, like Peter Sellers in “Dr. Strangelove.”

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

The recently promoted soloist expanded his choreography’s bounding and spinning challenges into a dimension all his own—when sprung in the air, he hung there, still; when grounded by turns, he rotated like some serene tornado.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025

Spiderman famously does whatever a spider can—including spinning webs and bounding though the air.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 4, 2024

And for a third time I’m expecting Manchee to come bounding out with us.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness