0 (especially of older people) active and able to move quickly and energetically:
1 (esp. of an old person) active and able to move quickly and energetically:
It would be anomalous to reduce the normal retiring age to 70 but to permit a judge, however spry and sprightly, to continue after 75.
I believe that he is very spry and quite able to get out of the way of bicycles.
The motor omnibus tells you that if you are not spry the forces of gravity or of crushing weights will put an end to your existence.
Musically, the album has been described as a mix of trad-country instruments and spry rock guitars.
He is well-noted for his matching denim shirt and jeans, gyrating torso, and unusually spry pelvic thrusts.
The aged yet spry shop keep presides over the game as an old man watches the scene.
Theatrical may be a bit iffier, although vid and tube life will be spry.
This made braking more effective and cycling, previously the reserve of spry, daring young men, safer, and therefore much more popular, especially for women.
