Synonyms of clowning

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clowning 1 of 2

noun

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as in joking

wildly playful or mischievous behavior

our coworker's clowning was distracting, but fun to watch

Synonyms & Similar Words

• joking
• clownery
• buffoonery
• funning
• tomfoolery
• monkeying
• slapstick
• horseplay
• playfulness
• roughhousing
• skylarking
• hijinks
• foolery
• roughhouse
• silliness
• monkey business
• high jinks
• jesting
• horsing around
• monkeyshine(s)
• shenanigan(s)
• clownishness
• mischief
• nonsense
• sporting
• boisterousness
• childishness
• trickery
• frivolity
• foolishness
• roguishness
• rambunctiousness
• rowdiness
• cavorting
• rowdyism
• rascality
• frolicking
• merrymaking
• waggery
• roistering
• impishness
• romping
• roguery
• mischievousness
• sportiveness
• gamboling
• revelry
• knavery
• deviltry
• devilry
• prankishness
• rumbustiousness
• gambolling

clowning

2 of 2

verb

present participle of clown

1

as in miming

Synonyms & Similar Words

• miming
• hamming
• masquerading
• imitating
• overacting
• mimicking
• aping
• underplaying
• overplaying
• pantomiming
• playacting
• enacting
• acting out
• dramatizing
• role-playing
• acting
• performing
• costarring
• posing (as)
• playing
• taking on
• rendering
• coacting
• impersonating
• interpreting
• depicting
• representing
• portraying
• co-acting
• co-starring
• doing
• starring (in)

2

as in dancing

Synonyms & Similar Words

• dancing
• roughhousing
• skylarking
• carousing
• roistering
• cutting up
• joyriding
• horsing around
• capering
• prancing
• fooling around
• reveling
• kiting
• carrying on
• leaping
• revelling
• cavorting
• larking
• loping
• hopping
• curvetting
• romping
• frolicking
• rollicking
• gamboling
• tumbling
• sporting
• skipping
• frisking
• curveting
• bounding
• tripping
• springing
• gambolling
• disporting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouting
• moping
• sulking
• stewing

• pouting
• moping
• sulking
• stewing