roughhouse

Example Sentences

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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

Mauro Bellugi pestered Brooking in the roughhouse style.

From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2021

He told his uncle that he didn’t talk when he wasn’t supposed to, didn’t roughhouse, that he helped pick up things from the floor and helped the teacher pass out papers.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2019

Finally, she’d found a playmate she could roughhouse with.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan