noun. A light leap by a horse, in which both hind legs leave the ground just before the forelegs are set down.

intransitive verb. To leap in a curvet.

intransitive verb. To prance; frolic.

intransitive verb. To cause to leap in a curvet.

noun. In the manège, a leap of a horse in which both the fore legs are raised at once and equally advanced, the haunches lowered, and the hind legs brought forward, the horse springing as the fore legs are falling, so that all his legs are in the air at once.

noun. Figuratively, a prank; a frolic.

To leap in a curvet; prance.

To leap and frisk.

To cause to make a curvet; cause to make an upward spring.

transitive verb. To cause to curvet.

noun. A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both his fore legs at once, equally advanced, and, as his fore legs are falling, raises his hind legs, so that all his legs are in the air at once.

noun. A prank; a frolic.

intransitive verb. To make a curvet; to leap; to bound.

intransitive verb. To leap and frisk; to frolic.

verb. To leap about, frolic.

verb. perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse

noun. a light leap by a horse in which both hind legs leave the ground before the forelegs come down

"I can see my husband riding the margins of the field, talking to his land steward, and I kick Arthur into a rolling canter and come up to him in a rush that makes his own horse sidle and curvet in the mud."

bound  dressage  jump  leap  spring  

aequali  aevum  aula  coelestium  disport  

courbette  frolic  jump  leap  prank  

curvetted  curvetting  

curvets  curvetted  curvetting