Wiktionary
vb. To do or perform an activity which is very risky, or dangerous, and could even cause one's death.
Usage examples of "dice with death".
Since I encountered death, met death on every mountain path, conversed with death in my sleep, wrestled with death in the snow, gambled at dice with death, I have come to the conclusion that death is not an enemy but a brother.
They knew I was a white knight dumb enough to roll the dice with death over a damsel in distress.
Each corner at first was a sort of dice with death, and twice he spun and ended up on the grass verge, white and trembling with shock and deeply ashamed that he had treated his car so.
His muscles ached as if he had just finished a half days workout in the Palominos compact gymnasium, though he hadnt moved from his position in all the time they had been playing dice with death.