Definition of "prance"

prance

/pɹæn(t)s/

verb
third-person singular simple present prances, present participle prancing, simple past and past participle pranced
1. (of a horse) To spring forward on the hind legs.
2. (colloquial, figuratively) To strut about in a showy manner.
noun
plural prances
1. A prancing movement.
  Quotations
  There seemed a little prance of triumph in his movement,
  1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow