caracole

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: car=a=cole

CIDE DICTIONARY

caracole, n. [F. caracole, caracol, fr. Sp. caracol snail, winding staircase, a wheeling about.].

•  A half turn which a horseman makes, either to the right or the left.  [1913 Webster]
•  A staircase in a spiral form.  [1913 Webster]

∥En caracole ( [F.], spiral; -- said of a staircase.

caracole, v. i. [Cf. F. caracoler.].

 To move in a caracole, or in caracoles; to wheel.  [1913 Webster]
"Prince John caracoled within the lists."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

caracole, n. & v.
--n. a horse's half-turn to the right or left.
--v.
1 intr. (of a horse or its rider) perform a caracole.
2 tr. make (a horse) caracole.

Etymology

F

THESAURUS

caracole

amble, antic, beam, bob, bounce, canter, caper, capriole, carol, carry on, cavort, chirp, chirrup, clap hands, curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, cut up, dance, delight, dido, disport, exult, falcade, flounce, fool around, frisk, frolic, gallop, gambade, gambado, gambol, glory, glow, go on horseback, hack, horse around, joy, jubilate, jump about, laugh, lilt, lope, mount, pace, piaffe, play, prance, radiate cheer, ramp, rejoice, revel, ride bareback, ride hard, rollick, romp, sing, skip, skip for joy, smile, sparkle, sport, take horse, tittup, trip, trot, whistle

ROGET THESAURUS

caracole

Journey

VB travel, journey, course, take a journey, go a journey, take a walk, go out for walk, have a run, take the air, flit, take wing, migrate, emigrate, trek, rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse, scour the country, traverse the country, peragrate, circumambulate, perambulate, nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle, gad, gad about, expatiate, walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare, promenade, trudge, tramp, stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle, paddle, tread a path, take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole, gallop, embark, board, set out, hit the road, get going, get underway, peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on, stir one's stumps, bend one's steps, bend one's course, make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way, slide, glide, coast, skim, skate, march in procession, file on, defile, go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.

Leap

N leap, jump, hop, spring, bound, vault, saltation, ance, caper, curvet, caracole, gambade, gambado, capriole, demivolt, buck, buck jump, hop skip and jump, falcade, kangaroo, jerboa, chamois, goat, frog, grasshopper, flea, buckjumper, wallaby, leaping, saltatory, frisky, on the light fantastic toe, di salto in salto.

VB leap, jump up, jump over the moon, hop, spring, bound, vault, ramp, cut capers, trip, skip, dance, caper, buck, buck jump, curvet, caracole, foot it, bob, bounce, flounce, start, frisk, jump about, trip it on the light fantastic toe, trip the light fantastic, dance oneself off one's legs, dance off one's shoes.