horseplay
Example Sentences
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The horseplay this entails, though gamely performed, grows dizzying.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 12, 2024
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
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
Burnight, then the principal, describes the incident as essentially horseplay.
From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022
Sometimes the people of the village complained about them and their horseplay, said that they were a noisy, inconsiderate group, worse than any bunch of adolescents that had ever lived in Boys' Lodge.
From "Son" by Lois Lowry
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