cavort about/around• I had to slap my thigh and cavort around.• No serious attention would be paid to cuisine while his pupils were cavorting around in this outlandish dress parade.
Origincavort
(1700-1800) Perhaps from curvet“to dance around”((16-21 centuries)), from Italiancorvettare, from corvetta“jump into the air”, from Frenchcourber“to curve”