horseplay

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Fortunately, Wilson and Mandvi are adept enough comics not to fall into that trap even as they avoid the equally damaging peril of too much audience-pandering horseplay.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 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

In his stage directions, Beckett spent 195 words choreographing some horseplay involving hats.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2023

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

All the talk and horseplay ended within a few seconds of the instant when the first person, that is myself, heard the footsteps returning along the marble stairway and corridors toward us.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles