To leap; skip or jump; prance; spring: as, to caper about (as a lamb or a child); “making a roan horse caper,” Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine.n. A leap; a skip or spring, as in dancing or mirth, or in the frolic of a kid or lamb, or a child; hence, a sportive or capricious action; a prank.n. A plant, Capparis spinosa, the buds of which (called capers) are much used as a condiment.n. Nautical, a light-armed vessel of the seventeenth century, used by the Dutch for privateering.