curvet

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Tigers walk treadmills, horses curvet superbly and Harry Rittely sits atop seven tables and topples over backwards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Elizabeth's Winston, pestered by a swarm of thunder flies, began to curvet alarmingly.

From Time Magazine Archive

“How can you say such a thing?” he repeated involuntarily, driving a spur into his horse’s flank with a dig that made that spirited animal curvet and prance beneath the restraining curb.

From Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt by Mitford, Bertram

Lenore bowed low, and made her pony curvet gayly.

From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav

There are few birds to be seen, except an occasional hawk, who seems to have no other object than to curvet about and display his clipper-built wings for our admiration.

From Seeds of Pine by Canuck, Janey