Simon Beaufoy

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

British Writer

John Niven

We live in a crazily youth-orientated world nowadays. It's a trickle-down thing. We see pictures of lithe, attractive celebrity couples such as Brad and Angelina or the Beckhams cavorting around, covered in tattoos, stomachs as flat as the singing in early 'X Factor' rounds.

Scottish Author

Manny Farber

Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.

American Artist

Rhianna Pratchett

Cavorting around fantasy-style environments with a rampaging horde of sycophantic psychos is inherently amusing.

English Designer

Robert Plant

British Musician

Used when someone shows joy through physical activity like jumping or dancing, often unplanned.

Joyful Movement

Imagine children or animals playing. This verb fits well with light-hearted, playful scenes.

Playful Scenarios

Use 'cavort' to describe scenes where the mood is upbeat and the settings are cheerful.

Positive Atmosphere

Sometimes suggests behavior that is wild, unruly, or against social norms, but in a playful way.

Implies Misbehavior

Often used to describe social situations where people are enjoying themselves, possibly partying.

Social Activity

Particularly fitting for night-time leisure activities such as clubbing or attending parties.

Nightlife Context

 and they tend to relate to increases in violence. Now, for those of you who are parents of teenage sons, you know what I'm talking about, right? Just imagine your boy without any structure with those unruly friends of his, out there cavorting about.

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 you can't just assert it any more also a lot of our moral improvement has come about from what I call the which theory of causality if you think that women cavorting with demons causes crop failures disease and disasters you're

How science & reason...

 with they're still living victims are they just cavorting with their prize showing off scientists believe the whales are actually training for the more rigorous chases they'll have to make later in the year in the open field

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 might get now know that there's a leper around and you might think therefore that they would flee but they don't they're advancing cavorting and that's because the leopard is an ambush

Cavort

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Playful Scenarios

Positive Atmosphere

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