The word "prancing" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe a lively, springing movement, often associated with animals or people moving in a playful or spirited manner.
Example: "The horse was prancing around the field, full of energy and joy."
Alternatives: "Dancing" or "Leaping".
"The film shows some Third Reich footage intercut with Aleks Shaklin as Richard prancing around on a rooftop in West Hollywood doing a great Richard.
There are, therefore, at least four layers of interpretation and wilful dramatic exaggeration standing between the real Richard III, and Laurence Olivier prancing about onscreen with a fake nose, rolling his Rs like there's no tomorrrrrow and threatening to kill everyone.
General Wesley Clark has him "prancing" in his flight suit.
After all, who wants Rudolph prancing round in circles?
WITH no golden coaches or prancing horses, no men in tights and no gorgeous robes, indeed no ceremony at all, the law-making programme for the first year of the new Scottish Parliament was announced on June 16th.
AS your correspondent writes, models are prancing down Parisian catwalks in fashion's snootiest event, the presentation of the autumn and winter haute couture collections.
A gaudy giant ceramic peacock and majolica elephant go eye to eye; on a bombastic gold-and-silver shield, prancing cavalrymen very literally celebrate the crushing of Indian mutineers at Lucknow in 1857.
He won his party's leadership in September 1995 after prancing down the street hand-in-hand with Mr Paisley after a highly contentious loyalist parade through a Catholic area.
At Butchoff Antiques in Kensington, a rich part of London, bright lights illuminate prancing cherubim candlestick-holders and dark ebony furniture, which is especially popular with Russians.
They run agilely on lily pads with prancing steps, supported by their remarkably long toes and claws.
In a broad sense, every Middle Eastern floral carpet or rug actually represents, in its own fashion, a garden especially if it is filled with prancing animals.
