prance
prans
- n a proud stiff pompous gait
- v to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others
- v spring forward on the hind legs
- v cause (a horse) to bound spring forward
- v ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward
- If his timing is lucky, he can almost feel the heat as tawny Samoan youths prance beneath on mats of fire, and only moments later he may be staring down into the whites of the .
- Donning its diamonds, Chicago trouped to the Horse Show, watched three and five gaited hacks prance solemnly around the ring, their tails waving high behind them.
- Suddenly, amid a mob of paparazzi, two women prance in wearing body-clinging leopard-print dresses.