Synonyms of the word curvet


CURVETBOUND - DRESSAGE - JUMP - LEAP - SPRING - VAULTING

curvet

  • v. (intransitive, of a horse or, by extension, another animal) To leap about, frolic.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to leap about, dart or jump.
  • v. (of a bird) To fly or swim with darting movements.
  • v. (figuratively) (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic.
  • v. (figuratively) (of an object) To jump, skip, shake.
  • n. A particular leap of a horse, when he raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as his forelegs…
  • n. A prank; a frolic.

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).

dressage

  • n. (uncountable) the schooling of a horse.
  • n. (uncountable) an equestrian sport in which the horse and rider perform a test of specific movements in…
  • n. (countable) an event or competition of the sport of dressage.

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.

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.

vaulting

  • n. The practice of constructing vaults, or a particular method of such construction.
  • n. A vaulted structure; such structures treated as a group.
  • n. The sport of gymnastics and dance routines performed on horseback, and on the longe line.
  • v. present participle of vault.
  • adj. Leaning upward or over.
  • adj. Exaggerated or overreaching.
  • adj. performing.

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