[-ING1.] The action of the verb CURVET, q.v.
1784. trans. Beckfords Vathek (1868), 55. The unwieldy curvetting of these poor beasts.
1801. Strutt, Sports & Past., III. v. 203. Imitating the curvetings and motions of a horse.
1840. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Witches Frolic. Such lofty curvetting And grand pirouetting.