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
Sophie sometimes tags along with a group of British teenagers, eavesdropping on their naughty banter and observing their horseplay with an eagerness that might make a watchful parent anxious.
From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022
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
She could imagine the scene—the manly punches to the shoulder, the horseplay.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
