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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
horseplay
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Horseplay on the school bus is not allowed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cosmopolitan chief Marcelle d'Argy Smith stormed out of the historic Oxford Union debating chamber after sitting through 90 minutes of bawdy horseplay.
▪ He denied in cross-examination that he and the other boy had gone from their downstairs dormitory for horseplay.
▪ He made a few jokes, a few attempts at horseplay, but they all fell short.
▪ There seemed to be a lot of laughter and some mild horseplay.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horseplay

Horseplay \Horse"play`\, n. Rude, boisterous play.

Too much given to horseplay in his raillery.
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
horseplay

"rough, excessive play," 1580s, from horse (n.) with its associations of "strong, coarse" + play (n.). \n

Wiktionary
horseplay

n. rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm. vb. To engage in horseplay.

WordNet
horseplay

n. rowdy or boisterous play

Wikipedia
Horseplay (2003 film)

Horseplay is a 2003 Australian film starring Marcus Graham that is set around the Melbourne Cup.

Horseplay (band)

Horseplay is a five-piece English folk music based in County Durham. Their album Roughshod was released in 2006.

Horseplay (2014 film)

Horseplay is a 2014 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Lee Chi-ngai and starring Tony Leung, Ekin Cheng and Kelly Chen. The film's Cantonese and Mandarin theme song, Why Not Tonight and The Best Night respectively, was adapted from Henry Mancini's It Had Better Be Tonight with Leung, Cheng and Chen performing. Leung and Chen performed the Mandarin version at the 2014 CCTV Lunar New Year Evening on 30 January 2014.

Horseplay

Horseplay may refer to:

  • Horseplay (2003 film), an Australian film
  • Horseplay (2014 film), a Hong Kong action comedy film
  • Horseplay (band), an English folk music band
  • Horseplay humor, an aspect of low comedy

Usage examples of "horseplay".

Only in the privacy of the wardroom could middies release their natural tensions in horseplay.

Gym bags and oversize canvas duffels had been lined up in random clusters while the kids themselves milled around, engaged in various forms of horseplay.

There was something weird, something repugnant about the thought of those men sitting up to their necks in wooden tubs of skin-scummy bathwater, splashing and horseplaying like kids in a swimming hole.

And there was something repugnant about the thought of those men sitting up to their necks in wooden tubs of skin-scummy bathwater, splashing and horseplaying like kids in a swimming hole.