prance

The kids prance around the yard quoting “Macbeth” a decade before he’ll stage it and Mescal gets to recite a “Hamlet” soliloquy as a little treat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2025

Also, is it really necessary for him to prance on top of the dugout in the ninth inning disrupting the view of the fans?

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 19, 2022

Lady Bridgerton seems almost otherworldly in a world where women continually prance about in ethereal dresses that look like ballet costumes.

From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2022

“I do like dressing up and wearing full makeup. Because who doesn’t want to prance through the woods and feel like a woman fairy? But some of it is definitely about looking super-approachable,” she said.

From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2021

I prance from rack to rack, I preen.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

But we come to love Ava’s BFF Danica, who prances into obvious death traps wearing flimsy silver mules.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025

Mousseau said the team has grown close to some dogs, naming one Prancer because she excitedly prances around when she sees people.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

In The Unseen Queen, the BBC's beautiful documentary of family-filmed footage of the young princess, Lilibet prances and dances, pranks and laughs.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2022

And sometimes Mitski’s charming prances around the stage in her flowy dress or pantomimed door-knocking in “Should’ve Been Me” warranted a snapshot.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

Father leaps and prances around me, sniffing me and licking my fur.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

I could see his wild imagination at work and his interest in being an entertainer as he pranced around the house doing Elvis impersonations.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

As a crowd of spectators cheered, some of the sheep pranced.

From New York Times ● Jan. 21, 2024

Ramirez’s 4-year-old daughter - who pranced behind her mother, blowing bubbles and popping the ones that landed in her brown curls - has a lung condition.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 24, 2023

After another bucket dropped during a 25-point performance in the McDonald’s All-American girls’ game in Houston, the generational Sierra Canyon senior threw a pair of three-finger signs up and pranced around the court.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

The parade pranced, staggered and reeled to the gate of the Dresden slaughterhouse, and then it went inside.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

In some caves where enlightened paradise is depicted, it’s utopic: singers and dancers prancing in revelry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026

Yet the brand with the prancing horse logo took several years before deciding to throw its hat into the all-electric ring.

From Barron's ● May 26, 2026

Suddenly, the rock god who only three years prior hit his commercial apex with “Let’s Dance,” a master of artistic shapeshifting who pioneered music videos long before MTV existed, was prancing around with Muppets.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2026

With Julie Allemand holding her knees and Kelsey Plum already prancing away, the ball kissed the rim twice more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2025

He could see Svadilfari now, shaking his head and almost prancing in the wildflowers of the spring meadow.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman