prance has definitions from the field of transportation
1
[ verb ] to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others

Examples

: "He strut around like a rooster in a hen house."

Used in print

(Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)

He was prancing along the hall , heading for the next flight_of_stairs .

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

This could be told chiefly from a sort of head tossing and prancing , a horse like balkiness of demeanor .

Related terms

walk pimproll strut swaggerer

2
[ verb ] (transportation) cause (a horse) to bound spring forward

Related terms

ride riding riding

3
[ verb ] (transportation) ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward

Related terms

ride_horseback riding riding

4
[ verb ] spring forward on the hind legs

Examples

"The young horse was prancing in the meadow"

Related terms

travel

5
[ noun ] a proud stiff pompous gait

Synonyms

strut swagger

Related terms

gait swagger

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