Synonyms of clowning

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noun

as in joking

wildly playful or mischievous behavior

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

clowning

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verb

present participle of clown

1

as in miming

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in cutting up

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouting
• sulking
• stewing
• moping