roughhouse
Example Sentences
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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
Now here comes Kansas, hurled atop the roughhouse West Region and told to function as best it can.
From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2023
The elves roughhouse them down a slide that definitely doesn't appear to be up to code.
From Salon • Dec. 13, 2022
Mauro Bellugi pestered Brooking in the roughhouse style.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2021
Finally, she’d found a playmate she could roughhouse with.
From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan
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