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# caper

«caper» in Mova's school dictionary: **a playful jump or skip** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (capers); verb (caper, capers, capered, capering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A caper is a playful jump or skip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caper/#m1)

2) To caper is to skip, jump and dance about happily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caper/#m2)

3) (informal) A caper is a mischievous trick or prank; «cut capers» means to play about or behave naughtily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caper/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales people caper for joy, jumping and dancing; children cut capers, playing about or being naughty

### examples

- The children capered round the tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caper/#x1)
- First he whirled round, then he cut all sorts of capers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caper/#x2)
- They capered with joy when the feast was ready. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caper/#x3)
- The boys were up to their usual capers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caper/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «caper» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/caper/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.