Word Meanings - CAPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CAPER)

• Gambol Frolic
• sport
• frisk
• play
• caper
• jump

Related words: (words related to CAPER)

• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• FRISKER
  One who frisks; one who leaps of dances in gayety; a wanton; an inconstant or unsettled person. Camden.
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• CAPERER
  One who capers, leaps, and skips about, or dances. The nimble capperer on the cord. Dryden.
• FRISK
  Lively; brisk; frolicsome; frisky. Bp. Hall.
• SPORTFUL
  1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
• CAPERCLAW
  To treat with cruel playfulness, as a cat treats a mouse; to abuse. Birch.
• SPORTER
  One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
• SPORTLING
  A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.
• GAMBOL
  A skipping or leaping about in frolic; a hop; a sportive prank. Dryden. (more info) It. gambata kick, fr. L. gamba leg, akin to F. jambe, OF. also, gambe, fr. L. gamba, hoof or perh. joint: cf. Gr. cam crooked; perh. akin to E. chamber:
• CAPERBERRY
  1. The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment. 2. The currantlike fruit of the African and Arabian caper (Capparis sodado).
• FROLICFUL
  Frolicsome.
• CAPER BUSH; CAPER TREE
  See 2
• FRISKFUL
  Brisk; lively; frolicsome.
• FRISKINESS
  State or quality of being frisky.
• FRISKAL
  A leap or caper. B. Jonson.
• FRISKY
  Inclined to frisk; frolicsome; gay. He is too frisky for an old man. Jeffrey.
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• DISPORTMENT
  Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• TRANSPORTINGLY
  So as to transport.
• OUTSPORT
  To exceed in sporting. "Not to outsport discretion." Shak.