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horseplay

horseplay noun: rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm.

Noun

horseplay (uncountable)

  1. Rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm.
    • After a little horseplay and floating around, April said "Look over there, it's our skinny dipper." […]2016 June, Roger Riffelmacher, Rogg's Bar And Grill, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN

Verb

horseplay (third-person singular simple present horseplays, present participle horseplaying, simple past and past participle horseplayed)

  1. (intransitive) To engage in horseplay.
    • Near-synonym: play fight
    • [S]he arose at seven o'clock and spent the first hour preparing pancakes while Al and Albert horseplayed.2004, Kyle Longley, Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick, page 136

horseplay meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada

horseplay in Tamil

முரட்டுக்களியாட்டம், வார்த்தைகளுள் ஒன்று

horseplay in Malayalam

fooling around, tomfoolery, foolish behaviour
വിനോദോന്മാദഹാസ്യം, അട്ടഹാസത്തോടുകൂടിയകളി, കളിചിരിബഹളം, മഹവിഡ്ഢിത്തം, പരമമടയത്തരം, ആർത്തുവിളിച്ചുള്ള തകർപ്പും തിമിർപ്പും

horseplay in Kannada

ಹುಚ್ಚಾಟ, ಗದ್ದಲದ ಆಟ, ಒರಟಾಟ

Synonyms of horseplay

All synonyms of horseplay

Forms of horseplay

Noun
alternative formhorse-play
Verb
third-person singular presenthorseplays
present participlehorseplaying
past participlehorseplayed
pasthorseplayed

Origin of horseplay

A compound of horse + play, possibly from observation of boisterous horses playing, or from its attributive sense "strong, big or coarse".

Questions about horseplay

What does horseplay mean?
Horseplay means rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm.
What is horseplay in Tamil?
Horseplay in Tamil is முரட்டுக்களியாட்டம், வார்த்தைகளுள் ஒன்று. See Horseplay meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is horseplay?
Horseplay can be a noun or a verb.

Words near horseplay in the dictionary

  1. horsenostrilled
  2. Horsens
  3. horsepeople
  4. horseperson
  5. horsepersons
  6. horseplay
  7. horseplayed
  8. horseplayer
  9. horseplayers
  10. horseplayful
  11. horseplaying

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: horseplay (page history and authors); horseplay (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horseplay (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); horseplay (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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