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

"See that creature begin to curvet and roll her eyes!" says Mrs. Gunning.

From A British Islander From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

From time to time he made his beast curvet, and laughed at himself inwardly for doing it.

From Black Amazon of Mars by Brackett, Leigh Douglass

The wary horsemen stand out in the open; some of them make their horses prance and curvet to show their mettle, and lay bets with one another.

From A Hungarian Nabob by Bain, R. Nisbet (Robert Nisbet)