Crossword clues for capered
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Caper \Ca"per\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Capered p. pr. & vb. n. capering.] [From older capreoll to caper, cf. F. se cabrer to prance; all ultimately fr. L. caper, capra, goat. See Capriole.] 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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: caper)
Usage examples of "capered".
As they did, three goblins capered out of the forest, howling and laughing and plucking caps from the clothesline and stuffing them in a sack.
He'd capered and clowned with an impenetrable grim determination and he'd graduated top of his year and had been awarded the Bladder of Honour.
Ahab capered across the green, first tilting his head this way and then that way and drawing the admiration of the townspeople.
Dooly, however, capered up as if to hug Old Escargot, stopped, then thrust out a hand, Escargot shook it “You're looking fit, lad.
The masked "ancestors" followed them out of the courtyard in pairs, moving at a stately walk while the clowns capered and mugged for the spectators lining both sides of the street to the crematorium.
Ahead of them the masked dancers shook their phallic wands and capered, and the Spring Maiden, her long hair buffeted and tangled by the breeze, was going around the circle of the dancers, exchanging a kiss with each-a ritualized, formal kiss, where her lips barely touched each cheek.
They scrambled for them, to more laughter and applause, then capered away to the good dinner waiting for them in the kitchens.
Though Gaborn's own mount stopped, it capered to the side, eager to charge.
Magnus was amazed to find that his feet kept pace with the increase of the tempo, swirling about and about, faster and faster, until only the Queen was clear in his vision, rotating in the center as he capered madly about her, all others only a blur of colors and faces behind her in the moonlight, churning through their own madcap dance, weaving about as he revolved around their queen.
Didst thou not see how he capered at her whim, how she dressed him in these foolish rags, how she stripped him of his sword?
Now and then, when the wind faltered or briefly changed the angle of its assault, short-lived forms of snow capered in arabesque dances, this way and that, but always dispersing and vanishing like ghostly performers the moment that the wind recovered its momentum and purpose.