Thesaurus results for HORSE AROUND

horse around

verb

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 Running or horsing around with sparklers can also cause injuries and burns when users trip and fall. —

Justin Laube, EverydayHealth.com, 2 July 2025 Heath Ryan, who represented Australia in dressage at the 2008 Olympics, can be seen in the video – which the rider said is about two years old – hitting a horse around 40 times. —

Matias Grez, CNN Money, 13 June 2025 Fayetteville Sad Palomino’s Will King releases a collection of home recordings In between horsing around with his longtime band Sad Palomino, Will King has been recording and trying to decide the best way to share songs, mostly written during winters from 2020 to 2025. —

Monica Hooper, Arkansas Online, 25 May 2025 Umberto Rispoli squeezed between horses around the top of the stretch and then rode Journalism to a tremendous rally. —

Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for horse around

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Zeus did not approve of his daughter fooling around with this mortal roughneck hunter and put out a hit on Orion.

— Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
Bella Ramsey takes a break from killing zombies and avenging father figures, their usual pastimes in series The Last of Us, to fool around and fall in love in Sunny Dancer, a decidedly uneven but fitfully charming, YA-skewed British comedy-drama.

— Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 13 Feb. 2026