Thesaurus / horseplay

horseplay

How to use horseplay in a sentence

Shouting, singing, and indulging in horseplay the savages crowded round, watching the process.

A gentleman commoner of Queen's was president of a 'hellfire club,' and brutal horseplay was still practised upon the weaker lads.

It was pleasant enough looking horseplay; the sort of intimacy that people have when they've been together for a long time.

HIGHWAYS IN HIDINGGEORGE OLIVER SMITH

He seemed to treat the whole proceeding as a bit of horseplay, joking profanely with his captors, boasting of his crimes.

PORT O' GOLDLOUIS JOHN STELLMAN

After an hour's horseplay they trooped back to the cabin and soon had breakfast out of the way.

The bears themselves perform their parts most decorously, without any horseplay or clowning.

Evidently considering that he had a safe lead the Major cut out the conversation and the horseplay and settled down to par golf.

FORE!CHARLES EMMETT VAN LOAN

Those left behind were trying to amuse themselves by games and horseplay.

But you may look on at a Kirchweih from morning till night without seeing either horseplay or drunkenness.

Horseplay and practical jokes have been tolerated, at various times and places, at weddings.

FOLKWAYSWILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985