horseplay

Example Sentences

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Cartoonish horseplay would have gotten a hardier laugh.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

Video of the horseplay prompted a good deal of online hilarity, with even the transportation department getting into the snarky act.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 3, 2024

But we’ll need a good start, So the star learns his part, Or this horseplay could get out of hand.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

Burnight, then the principal, describes the incident as essentially horseplay.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

All the talk and horseplay ended within a few seconds of the instant when the first person, that is myself, heard the footsteps returning along the marble stairway and corridors toward us.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles