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S: (v) resile (pull out from an agreement, contract, statement, etc.) "The landlord cannot resile from the lease"
S: (v) bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet (spring back; spring away from an impact) "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

S: (v) jump, leap, bound, spring (move forward by leaps and bounds) "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"

S: (v) pronk (jump straight up) "kangaroos pronk"
S: (v) bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet (spring back; spring away from an impact) "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
S: (v) burst (move suddenly, energetically, or violently) "He burst out of the house into the cool night"
S: (v) bounce (leap suddenly) "He bounced to his feet"
S: (v) capriole (perform a capriole, of horses in dressage)
S: (v) galumph (move around heavily and clumsily) "the giant tortoises galumphed around in their pen"
S: (v) ski jump (jump on skis)
S: (v) saltate (leap or skip, often in dancing) "These fish swim with a saltating motion"
S: (v) vault (bound vigorously)
S: (v) leapfrog (jump across) "He leapfrogged his classmates"
S: (v) vault, overleap (jump across or leap over (an obstacle))
S: (v) curvet (perform a leap where both hind legs come off the ground, of a horse)
S: (v) hop, skip, hop-skip (jump lightly)
S: (v) caper (jump about playfully)
S: (v) hop (make a jump forward or upward)

S: (v) abjure, recant, forswear, retract, resile (formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure) "He retracted his earlier statements about his religion"; "She abjured her beliefs"

S: (v) resile (return to the original position or state after being stretched or compressed) "The rubber tubes resile"