Synonyms of the word

caper

• n. A playful leap or jump.
• n. A jump while dancing.
• n. A prank or practical joke.
• n. (usually in plural) Playful behaviour.
• n. A crime, especially theft, or a narrative about such a crime.
• v. To leap or jump about in a sprightly or playful manner.
• v. To jump as part of a dance.
• v. To engage in playful behaviour.
• n. A vessel formerly used by the Dutch; privateer.
• n. The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), which is pickled…
• n. A plant of the genus Capparis.
• n. (Scotland) The capercaillie.

antic

• adj. (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
• adj. Grotesque, bizarre; absurd.
• adj. Obsolete form of antique.
• n. (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
• n. A caricature.
• n. (often in plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
• n. A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
• v. (intransitive) To perform antics, caper.
• v. (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
• v. (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
• n. (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before…

bounce

• v. (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
• v. (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
• v. (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to…
• v. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
• v. (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient…
• v. (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
• v. (intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have…
• v. (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
• v. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
• v. (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.
• v. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
• v. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard on unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
• v. (slang, dated) To bully; to scold.
• v. (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
• v. (archaic) To boast; to bluster.
• n. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
• n. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
• n. An email return with any error.
• n. The sack, licensing.
• n. A bang, boom.
• n. A drink based on brandy^W.
• n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
• n. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
• n. Scyllium catulus, a European dogfish.
• n. A genre of New Orleans music.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Drugs..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) Swagger..
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
• n. (slang, African American Vernacular) A talent for leaping..

bound

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
• adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
• adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
• adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
• adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
• adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
• adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
• adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
• n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
• n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
• v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
• v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
• n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
• n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
• n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
• v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
• v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
• adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
• adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

bush

• n. (horticulture) A woody plant distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, being usually…
• n. (slang, vulgar) A person's pubic hair, especially a woman's; loosely, a woman's vulva.
• n. A shrub cut off, or a shrublike branch of a tree.
• n. A shrub or branch, properly, a branch of ivy (sacred to Bacchus), hung out at vintners' doors, or as a…
• n. (hunting) The tail, or brush, of a fox.
• v. (intransitive) To branch thickly in the manner of a bush.
• v. To set bushes for; to support with bushes.
• v. To use a bush harrow on (land), for covering seeds sown; to harrow with a bush.
• n. (archaic) A tavern or wine merchant.
• n. (often with "the") Rural areas, typically remote, wooded, undeveloped and uncultivated.
• n. (Canada) A woodlot or bluff on a farm.
• adv. (Australia) Towards the direction of the outback.
• adj. (colloquial) Not skilled; not professional; not major league.
• n. (baseball) Amateurish behavior, short for "bush league behavior".
• n. A thick washer or hollow cylinder of metal (also bushing).
• n. A mechanical attachment, usually a metallic socket with a screw thread, such as the mechanism by which…
• n. A piece of copper, screwed into a gun, through which the venthole is bored.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a bush or lining.

capriole

• n. A leap that a horse makes with all fours, upwards only, without advancing, but with a kick or jerk of…
• n. A leap or caper, as in dancing.
• v. (transitive) To cause (one's mounted horse) to perform a capriole.

diversion

• n. (military) A tactic used to draw attention away from the real threat or action.
• n. A hobby; an activity that distracts the mind.
• n. The act of diverting.
• n. Removal of water via a canal.
• n. (transport) A detour, such as during road construction.
• n. (transport) The rerouting of cargo or passengers to a new transshipment point or destination, or to a…
• n. (law) Officially halting or suspending a formal criminal or juvenile justice proceeding and referral of…

frolic

• adj. (now rare) Merry, joyous; later especially, frolicsome, sportive, full of playful mischief.
• adj. (obsolete, rare) Free; liberal; bountiful; generous.
• n. Gaiety; merriment.
• n. A playful antic.
• v. (intransitive) To romp; to behave playfully and uninhibitedly.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To cause to be merry.

gambol

• v. (intransitive) To move about playfully; to frolic.
• v. (Britain, West Midlands) To do a forward roll.
• n. An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
• n. An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.

job

• n. A task.
• n. An economic role for which a person is paid.
• n. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
• n. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
• n. A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
• n. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty,…
• n. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
• n. A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
• v. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
• v. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
• v. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
• v. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
• v. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
• v. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private…
• v. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
• v. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
• v. To hire or let in periods of service.

joke

• n. An amusing story.
• n. Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
• n. (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one.
• n. (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
• v. (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
• v. (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.

jump

• v. (intransitive) To propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that…
• v. (intransitive) To cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
• v. (transitive) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap.
• v. (intransitive) To employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• v. (intransitive) To react to a sudden, often unexpected, stimulus (such as a sharp prick or a loud sound)…
• v. (intransitive) To employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position…
• v. (transitive) To move to a position in (a queue/line) that is further forward.
• v. (transitive) To attack suddenly and violently.
• v. (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse.
• v. (transitive) To cause to jump.
• v. (transitive) To move the distance between two opposing subjects.
• v. (transitive) To increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and…
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To increase speed aggressively and without warning.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
• v. (transitive, smithwork) To join by a buttweld.
• v. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
• v. (quarrying) To bore with a jumper.
• v. (obsolete) To coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
• v. (intransitive, computing) To start executing code from a different location, rather than following the…
• n. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
• n. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
• n. (mining) A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
• n. (architecture) An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
• n. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
• n. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
• n. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
• n. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
• n. A jumping move in a board game.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself…
• n. (sports, horses) An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over…
• n. (with on) An early start or an advantage.
• n. (mathematics) A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured…
• n. (science fiction) An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
• n. (computing) A change of the path of execution to a different location.
• adv. (obsolete) exactly; precisely.
• adj. (obsolete) Exact; matched; fitting; precise.
• n. A kind of loose jacket for men.

leap

• v. (intransitive) To jump.
• v. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.
• v. (transitive) To copulate with (a female beast); to cover.
• v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
• n. The act of leaping or jumping.
• n. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
• n. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
• n. (mining) A fault.
• n. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
• n. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including…
• n. (obsolete) A basket.
• n. A weel or wicker trap for fish.
• n. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.
• n. (figuratively) Synonym of exaggeration.
• n. basket.
• n. a trap or snare for fish.
• n. half a bushel.

leaping

• v. present participle of leap.

pickle

• n. A cucumber preserved in a solution, usually a brine or a vinegar syrup.
• n. (Often in plural: pickles), any vegetable preserved in vinegar and consumed as relish.
• n. The brine used for preserving food.
• n. A difficult situation, peril.
• n. (affectionate) A mildly mischievous loved one.
• n. (baseball) A rundown.
• n. A children’s game with three participants that emulates a baseball rundown.
• n. (slang) A penis.
• n. (slang) A pipe for smoking methamphetamine.
• n. (metalworking) A bath of dilute sulphuric or nitric acid, etc., to remove burnt sand, scale, rust, etc…
• n. In an optical landing system, the hand-held controller connected to the lens, or apparatus on which the…
• v. To preserve food in a salt, sugar or vinegar solution.
• v. To remove high-temperature scale and oxidation from metal with heated (often sulphuric) industrial acid.
• v. (programming) (in the Python programming language) To serialize.
• n. (Northern England, Scotland) A kernel; a grain (of salt, sugar, etc.).
• n. (Northern England, Scotland) A small or indefinite quantity or amount (of something); a little, a bit,…

play

• v. (intransitive) To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose…
• v. (ergative) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• v. (intransitive) To take part in amorous activity; to make love, fornicate; to have sex.
• v. (transitive) To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
• v. (heading, transitive, intransitive) To produce music or theatre.
• v. (heading) To behave in a particular way.
• v. (intransitive) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion;…
• v. (intransitive) To move gaily; to disport.
• v. (transitive) To put in action or motion.
• v. (transitive) To keep in play, as a hooked fish, in order to land it.
• v. (transitive) To manipulate or deceive someone.
• n. (uncountable, formerly countable) Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
• n. (uncountable) Similar activity, in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
• n. (uncountable, ethology) "Repeated, incompletely functional behavior differing from more serious versions…
• n. The conduct, or course of a game.
• n. (countable) An individual's performance in a sport or game.
• n. (countable) (turn-based games) An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
• n. (countable) A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters…
• n. (countable) A theatrical performance featuring actors.
• n. (countable) A major move by a business.
• n. (countable) A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other…
• n. (uncountable) The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely.
• n. (uncountable, informal) Sexual role-playing.
• n. (countable) A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.

prank

• n. (obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.
• n. A practical joke or mischievous trick.
• v. (transitive) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
• v. (intransitive) To make ostentatious show.
• v. (transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick.
• v. (transitive, slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up.
• adj. (obsolete) Full of gambols or tricks.

put-on

• n. A deception, hoax, or practical joke.

recreation

• n. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
• n. The process of recreating something.
• n. The result of this process.

robbery

• n. The act or practice of robbing.
• n. (law) The offense of taking or attempting to take the property of another by force or threat of force.

romp

• v. (intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
• v. (transitive, US) (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
• v. To win easily.
• v. (slang) To engage in playful or boisterous sex.
• n. A period of boisterous play, a frolic.
• n. (slang) A bout of playful or boisterous sex.
• n. (archaic) A girl who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.

saltation

• n. A leap, jump or dance.
• n. Beating or palpitation.
• n. (biology) A sudden change from one generation to the next; a mutation.
• n. Any abrupt transition.
• n. (geology, fluid mechanics) The transport of loose particles by a fluid (such as wind or flowing water).

shrub

• n. A woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same base.
• v. (obsolete) To lop; to prune.
• v. (transitive, Kenyan English) To mispronounce a word by replacing its consonant sound(s) with another or…
• n. A liquor composed of vegetable acid, fruit juice (especially lemon), sugar, sometimes vinegar, and a small…

spring

• v. To jump or leap.
• v. To pass over by leaping.
• v. To produce or disclose unexpectedly, especially of surprises, traps, etc.
• v. (slang) To release or set free, especially from prison.
• v. To come into being, often quickly or sharply.
• v. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
• v. To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert.
• v. (nautical) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken.
• v. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets,…
• v. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
• v. To fly back.
• v. (intransitive) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped.
• v. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge, like a plant from its…
• v. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
• v. (obsolete) To grow; to prosper.
• v. (architecture, masonry, transitive) To build (an arch).
• v. (transitive, archaic) To sound (a rattle, such as a watchman's rattle).
• n. A leap; a bound; a jump.
• n. (countable) Traditionally the first of the four seasons of the year in temperate regions, in which plants…
• n. (countable) Meteorologically, the months of March, April and May in the northern hemisphere or September,…
• n. (countable) The astronomically delineated period from the moment of vernal equinox, approximately March…
• n. (countable) Spring tide; a tide of greater-than-average range, that is, around the first or third quarter…
• n. (countable) A place where water emerges from the ground.
• n. (uncountable) The property of a body of springing to its original form after being compressed, stretched,…
• n. Elastic power or force.
• n. (countable) A mechanical device made of flexible or coiled material that exerts force when it is bent,…
• n. (countable, slang) An erection of the penis.
• n. (countable) The source of an action or of a supply.
• n. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
• n. That which springs, or is originated, from a source.
• n. (obsolete) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
• n. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
• n. (countable, nautical) A rope attaching the bow of a vessel to the stern-side of the jetty, or vice versa,…
• n. (nautical) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can…
• n. (nautical) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

trick

• adj. (slang) Stylish or cool.
• n. Something designed to fool or swindle.
• n. A single piece of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.
• n. An entertaining difficult physical action.
• n. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
• n. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
• n. (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
• n. A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
• n. (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
• n. (slang) An act of prostitution. (Generally used with turn.).
• n. (slang) A customer to a prostitute.
• n. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
• n. (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
• n. A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
• v. (transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
• v. (heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
• v. To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.