horse around
verb
horsed around; horsing around; horses around
: to engage in horseplay
horse around together, joking and laughing and pushing each other—
D. K. Shipler
D. K. Shipler
also
: fool around sense 1
Synonyms
Examples of horse around in a Sentence
the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard
Recent Examples on the Web
The day before the show, horsing around in the basement, Miles climbed on top of the puppet theatre, fell off, and nearly broke his nose.
—Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023
Read full article For thirty minutes, Smith and her fellow pediatric cardiac patients rode horses around Windrush’s barn, releasing their anxieties and expressing their vulnerabilities to the intelligent animals.
—Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
Bertuzzi accepted it, hugged his parents, and went back out to horse around.
—Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
For months, people have scrolled through Twitter, Instagram and TikTok to watch Grody and Patinkin debate, declaim, snuggle, bicker, horse around, play with their dog, Becky, obsess about politics and display their (lack of) knowledge about such topics as text-speak and the New York pizza rat.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
Once a pony time, there lived in Philly-delphia a coltish, stag-geringly beautiful lass named Whinny, who wore a ponytail and horsed around with her family and friends.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
The pages featured the upper crust at play, horsing around and lounging about, untroubled yet serious.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
The Salvation Army was among the recipients of his rocking chairs and horses around Christmas time, and his wooden furniture found homes via Habitat for Humanity.
—The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2023
Ajiah Arceneaux, 16, races her horse around a barrel at a rodeo in Liberty, Texas.
—Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 12 Sep. 2022
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Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023
Read full article For thirty minutes, Smith and her fellow pediatric cardiac patients rode horses around Windrush’s barn, releasing their anxieties and expressing their vulnerabilities to the intelligent animals.
—Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
Bertuzzi accepted it, hugged his parents, and went back out to horse around.
—Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023
For months, people have scrolled through Twitter, Instagram and TikTok to watch Grody and Patinkin debate, declaim, snuggle, bicker, horse around, play with their dog, Becky, obsess about politics and display their (lack of) knowledge about such topics as text-speak and the New York pizza rat.
—Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
Once a pony time, there lived in Philly-delphia a coltish, stag-geringly beautiful lass named Whinny, who wore a ponytail and horsed around with her family and friends.
—Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
The pages featured the upper crust at play, horsing around and lounging about, untroubled yet serious.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2023
The Salvation Army was among the recipients of his rocking chairs and horses around Christmas time, and his wooden furniture found homes via Habitat for Humanity.
—The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2023
Ajiah Arceneaux, 16, races her horse around a barrel at a rodeo in Liberty, Texas.
—Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 12 Sep. 2022
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First Known Use
1919, in the meaning defined above
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horse around
verb
: to engage in horseplay : fool
was horsing around instead of studying
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