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

To display his skill before the ladies, he set spurs to his horse, making it bound and curvet "as valiantly as any man could do."

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

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

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

The horse, surprised at his burden, cantered casually along at first; then, resenting the intrusion, began to toss his head, snort and curvet about.

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Lyford, Philip