caracole vs curvet

caracole

noun
  • A half-turn performed by a horse and rider in dressage. 

  • A combat maneuver where riders of the same squadron turn simultaneously to their left or to their right. 

  • A spiral staircase. 

verb
  • To execute a caracole. 

curvet

noun
  • A particular leap in which a horse raises both forelegs at once, equally advanced, and, as the forelegs are falling, raises the hind legs, so that all the legs are in the air at once. 

  • A prank; a frolic. 

verb
  • (of a person) To prance; to caper, frolic. 

  • To fly or swim with darting movements. 

  • Of a horse or, by extension, another animal: to leap about, to frolic. 

  • (of an object) To jump, skip, shake. 

  • To cause to leap about, dart or jump. 

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