What does "pronk" mean?

A gait or a leap in which all four legs are used to push off the ground at once.

What is a synonym for "pronk"?

Common synonyms include: leap, leap, prong, stot, stot.

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Noun

1
A gait or a leap in which all four legs are used to push off the ground at once.

Verb

1
To jump with all four limbs at once.
"Like stotting, pronking is a signal of medium excitation and is performed more often by fawns than by adults (1, 16)."
2
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"Like stotting, pronking is a signal of medium excitation and is performed more often by fawns than by adults (1, 16)."

From Afrikaans pronk (“to show off, strut, or prance”), from Dutch pronken (“to show off, be flamboyant”). See also prank.

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