practical joke

We may even admit the practical joke if it is domestic and simple.

I was, doubtless, to be the ignoble instrument of some practical joke.

I smelled a practical joke in the air, as a dog smells game.

This has more the aspect of a practical joke than an act of barbarism.

Had her room-mate only been intending to play a practical joke on Stephanie?

It is, I suppose, a practical joke on the part of one of you.

Or you would have seen that this paper was a practical joke.

He showed it to Major Wyndham, and asked: 'Was it a practical joke?'

What a strange, vast, practical joke was that thing called life.

Suppose it was a practical joke on the part of some of the members of the club?