Usually means: Leaping or prancing, especially horses.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word curveting:

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  1. curveting: Merriam-Webster
  2. curveting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. curveting: Collins English Dictionary
  4. curveting: Vocabulary.com
  5. curveting: Wordnik
  6. curveting: Wiktionary
  7. Curveting, curveting: Dictionary.com
  8. Curveting: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Curveting: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. curveting: FreeDictionary.org
  11. curveting: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. curveting: Encyclopedia

(Note: See curvet as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (curveting)

▸ noun:  The motion of a horse or other animal that curvets.
▸ noun:  Caper, frisking, often with a nuance of flirtation. (of a person)

Similar:
vaulting, corvetting, curvation, curving, curvative, curvity, incurvation, curvature, bent, circumflexion, more...

Opposite:
straightening, leveling, flattening

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Similar:
vaulting, corvetting, curvation, curving, curvative, curvity, incurvation, curvature, bent, circumflexion, more...

Opposite:
straightening, leveling, flattening



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