curvet

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

After a moment or two of this exercise, with a quick curvet, the insect betook himself to the roof of the piazza, where he disappeared among the bordering vines.

From Eye Spy Afield with Nature Among Flowers and Animate Things by Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)

With a curvet the boat from the open rounds up at the ladder.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

This plan has its advantages; it allows, for instance, the writer's pen to curvet as well as the artist's pencil.

From Comic Bible Sketches Reprinted from "The Freethinker" by Foote, G. W. (George William)