capriole

1. 1.

   (dressage) a vertical jump of a trained horse with a kick of the hind legs at the top of the jump

   Broaderjump

   dressage

2. 2.

   a playful leap or hop

   Synonymscaper

   Broaderleap

1. 1.

   perform a capriole, of horses in dressage

   Broaderjump
2. 2.

   perform a capriole, in ballet

   Broaderdance

Other forms of capriole

plural

caprioles·

past tense

caprioled·

present participle

caprioling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about capriole

What does capriole mean?

capriole means "(dressage) a vertical jump of a trained horse with a kick of the hind legs at the top of the jump". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in capriole?

capriole has 4 syllables: ca-pri-o-le. The stress falls on "pri".

What is another word for capriole?

Close synonyms include caper. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is capriole a common word?

capriole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.