horse around

as in to fool around
to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard

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Recent Examples of horse around The sport requires a combination of elegance and toughness as a team of eight girls wear long gowns, perfectly matching accessories and impeccable makeup while riding horses around an arena. Daniel Eduardo Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025 Four people are facing charges in Louisiana for horsing around in a small-town Walmart last week. Video that was posted on TikTok and went viral on social media showed three men and a teenage boy riding horses through the business in Baker, Louisiana. Elizabeth Pritchett, FOXNews.com, 16 Apr. 2025 Quit horsing around — the Clydesdales are back! Breanne L. Heldman, People.com, 10 Feb. 2025 In the video, Payne is shown horsing around with a large outdoor crowd and his bandmates, encouraging the fans to quiet their screaming and then raise the volume all the way back up. Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for horse around
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  • Gisin hopes that by fooling around with measurements of these more exotic states, physicists will come to better understand the role of measurement in general.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Those have come from two players: Adrian Morejon of the San Diego Padres, who throws an odd knuckleball-changeup hybrid about 1 percent of the time, and Jonah Bride of the Minnesota Twins, an infielder fooling around with the knuckler in blowouts.
    Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 19 June 2025
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  • That journey resulted in plenty of dishes that show off the bold flavors of the region.
    Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Bar Italia are definitely not shy about showing off their moody rock influences — a little Slowdive, a lot of the Cure, plenty of the Velvets and Spacemen 3 and Sonic Youth.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 16 Oct. 2025
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  • The boat therefore needed metal or plastic cages installed around the engines, so that the diver wouldn’t get accidentally cut up by their blades — and finding a boat and then the right cages fit onto the boat would take time.
    Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Techniques like this have been around for some time, but Micro-C uses an enzyme that can cut up DNA more finely than before.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 8 Oct. 2025
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  • Its general sensibility seems more Superstore than The Office, down to the interstitial montages of customers acting up in the perpetually overcrowded waiting room.
    Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Sturm said his back started acting up after the team’s first practice.
    Michael Russo, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
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  • Yet the feeling that the Red Sox proved everyone wrong prompted him to revel, too.
    Gabrielle Starr, Boston Herald, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Gattuso reveled as his side broke the deadlock when Moise Kean headed in Mateo Retegui’s flick-on in the 58th minute.
    David Ferrini, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Horse around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horse%20around. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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