Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
beleap | to leap upon. |
bound | a leap, a spring; (verb) to leap. |
buck | the male of eg the deer; (verb) (of a horse, etc) to jump repeatedly into the air. |
caper | a leap, a gambol; (verb) to leap or skip like a goat. |
caperer | one who capers. |
caperingly | (Adv.) CAPERING. |
cavort | to prance, caper about. |
cavorter | one who cavorts. |
cavortings | sexual frolics. |
corvet | to leap; to frisk. |
courbette | (Fr.) a curvet. |
curvet | a leap, a frolic; (verb) to leap, to frisk. |
dap | to dip bait gently into the water when fishing. |
frisker | one who frisks; one who leaps or gambols. |
gambol | a playful skipping movement; (verb) to leap or spring in dance or play. |
jaunce | a prance; a wearisome journey; (verb) to prance. |
jaunse | a prance; a wearisome journey; (verb) to prance. |
jump | a jerk or start (verb) to spring off the ground |
jumpable | that can be jumped. |
jumpingly | (Adv.) JUMPING, making jumps. |
jumprope | a rope used in children's games for jumping. |
jumpsies | a game involving jumping over a taut rope. |
kangaroo | (Aborig.) a large marsupial; (verb) to bound like a kangaroo. |
leap | a jump; (verb) to jump. |
leaper | one who leaps. |
leapfrog | to jump over with the legs wide apart. |
lep | (Dial.) to leap. |
lollop | to bound about wildly LOLLOPY. |
lollopy | given to lolloping > LOLLOPIER, LOLLOPIEST. |
loup | (Scots) to leap. |
lowp | (Scots) to leap. |
outcaper | to surpass in capering. |
outleap | to surpass in leaping. |
outspring | to spring out. |
over | above, in excess (noun) a delivery of six balls in cricket; (verb) to go, leap or vault over |
overbound | to bound excessively. |
overjump | to jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore. |
overleap | to leap over or across; hence, to omit; to ignore. |
overskip | to skip or leap over; to treat with indifference. |
owerloup | (Scots) to leap over. |
pounce | a sudden leap as on to prey; (verb) to make a sudden assault or approach. |
pouncer | one that pounces. |
prance | to spring forward on the hind legs. |
prancingly | (Adv.) PRANCING. |
prankle | to prance lightly. |
praunce | (Spenser) to prance. |
pronk | (Afrikaans) of a springbok, to leap in the air. |
rebound | to spring back. |
rebounding | the act of springing back. |
saltation | an act of leaping or dancing; a sudden metamorphosis. |
saltatorial | pertaining to leaping or dancing; taking place by leaps and bounds. |
saltatorious | of or for saltation. |
saltatory | of or for saltation. |
salto | (Ital.) a daring leap; a somersault; (verb) to somersault. |
scoup | (Scots) to bound, caper. |
scowp | (Scots) to bound, caper. |
skip | a light step (verb) to move with light springing steps |
skippingly | (Adv.) SKIPPING. |
somersault | a leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; (verb) to perform a somersault. |
somerset | a leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; (verb) to somersault. |
spanghew | (Dial.) to throw or jerk violently, eg a horse of its rider; spec. to cause (a toad or frog) to fly into the air. |
sprent | to spring or leap forward in an agile way. |
spring | an outflow of water from the earth (verb) to move upward suddenly and swiftly |
sprung | (PaP.) SPRING, to move upwards suddenly and swiftly. |
stott | to bound with a stiff gait. |
subsultive | moving by sudden leaps or starts; twitching. |
subsultorily | (Adv.) SUBSULTORY, moving by sudden leaps or starts. |
subsultory | moving by sudden leaps or starts; twitching. |
summersault | a leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. |
summerset | a leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; (verb) to somersault. |
tittup | a light springy step (verb) to prance, skip about gaily |
updive | to spring upward; to rise. |
upleap | to leap up. |
vault | an arched roof or ceiling (verb) to leap over |
vaulter | one who vaults. |
vaulting | vaulted work. |
vaultingly | (Adv.) VAULTING. |
vaut | (Obs.) to vault. |
vaute | (Obs.) to vault. |
vawte | (Obs.) to vault. |