roughhouse
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Alex Wolff stars as Tom, a sophomore at a Southern liberal arts school shirking his studies to romp and roughhouse with his fraternity brothers in the fictional Kappa Nu Alpha.
From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2023
Now here comes Kansas, hurled atop the roughhouse West Region and told to function as best it can.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
Mauro Bellugi pestered Brooking in the roughhouse style.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 11, 2021
They scored two goals in the opening seven minutes to take the crowd out of the game, and did not get goaded into any scrums or roughhouse play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 19, 2017
Of course Betsie had always seemed older because she couldn’t run and roughhouse the way other children did.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
My elementary school daughter won't wear "pretty" clothes, roughhouses with her dad, likes baby animals, befriends mostly girls and identifies as a girl.
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2017
Some days at home he wears dresses, paints his fingernails and plays with dolls; other days, he roughhouses, rams his toys together or pretends to be Spider-Man.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2012
He lives in a sunny, 14-room house with an adjoining tennis court and swimming pool where he roughhouses in off hours with four shiny, beaming sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
We held frequent "roughhouses" there, the younger of us ... to the annoyance of Speedwell.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Harry Kemp
“That day, I was roughhoused and treated unfairly for no reason,” Price testified.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2022
Morsell’s parents would hear the thuds from the boys crashing into the wall as they roughhoused and tried to dunk.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 18, 2021
That sense of seductive inevitability, which was ever-present in the 1999 Broadway revival with Brian Stokes Mitchell and Marin Mazzie, is roughhoused out of Ellis’ production.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2019
He joshed and roughhoused with the boys, and seemed to settle immediately into companionship with them in a way that belied the remote gaze he had trained on everyone during the first rehearsal and dinner.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 20, 2010
As their camouflaged troop carriers hummed and tanks growled, they roughhoused, wrestling and knocking one another about.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
As the boys grew up, they took to roughhousing around the house, much to the chagrin of their mother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026
The couple already had two kids, Ben and Penny, and envisioned all of the roughhousing, road trips and happy mayhem that comes with four children.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 28, 2023
The comedic roughhousing fell into a predictable rhythm, the character evolution slowed and its sociopolitical critiques grew soft.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2023
He recalls research in the 1970s on roughhousing in cockroaches, for example, that would immediately be considered an example of play if puppies were doing it.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 15, 2023
It reminded Fred of when he was only a few weeks old, horsing around and roughhousing with all his brothers and sisters.
From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein
