roughhouse

Example Sentences

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There, he and friends would roughhouse in front yards, church playgrounds ... any place they could.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024

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

The elves roughhouse them down a slide that definitely doesn't appear to be up to code.

From Salon • Dec. 13, 2022

Panasiuk said he may have inherited his innately calm personality from his mother, Jolanta Panasiuk, who was never fazed by her sons’ roughhouse fights.

From Washington Post • Aug. 24, 2022

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