Definition of horseplay
: rough or boisterous play
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Examples of horseplay in a Sentence
The lamp got broken when the kids were engaging in a little horseplay.
when he saw us spraying each other with the hose instead of washing the car, Dad yelled, “Cut out the horseplay!”
Recent Examples of horseplay from the Web
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Logan Melgar were wrestling at 4 a.m. when a fellow SEAL Adamcranston Matthew came in and joined in the horseplay.
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Amid the horseplay in this deranged horse opera, there’s also a poignant moment — part tribute, part torch-passing — in Act 2, when a large photo appears onstage of Larry Coen.
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There are no details in the suit on what the boys were actually doing as part of that horseplay, but Simmons provided some clarification to the Statesman on Friday.
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Nelson Candelario, his defense team highlighted witnesses who said the death was caused by horseplay, not intentional murder.
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There’s no horseplay, no banter, no jokes, As there was in the brighter part of the day.
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There was also Spygate and Deflategate, which were, depending on which team you root for, either the most egregious examples of wanton disregard for the rules in NFL history, or just a little bit of football horseplay.
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Choke holds are fairly common in mixed martial arts, which are becoming more popular, not to mention friendly horseplay.
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The Court of Appeals ruling upholds a trial judge’s decision to throw out Nicholas Riddle’s lawsuit blaming the Buncombe County Board of Education for a teammate’s fatal horseplay.
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First Known Use of horseplay
1589
horseplay Synonyms
Synonyms
buffoonery, clownery, clowning, foolery, high jinks (also hijinks), horsing around, monkey business, monkeying, monkeyshine(s), roughhouse, roughhousing, shenanigan(s), skylarking, tomfoolery;
Related Words
childishness, clownishness, foolishness, funning, jesting, joking, nonsense, silliness, waggery;
boisterousness, rambunctiousness, rowdiness, rowdyism, devilry (or deviltry), impishness, knavery, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, trickery;
cavorting, frivolity, frolicking, gamboling (or gambolling), merrymaking, playfulness, revelry, roistering, romping, sporting, sportiveness;
HORSEPLAY Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of horseplay for English Language Learners
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: rough or loud play : energetic and noisy playful activity
HORSEPLAY Defined for Kids
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