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horsing around

horsing around is the present participle and gerund of horse around.

Meaning of horse around

Verb

horse around (third-person singular simple present horses around, present participle horsing around, simple past and past participle horsed around)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To engage in horseplay.
    • Can we quit horsing around and get some work done?

Questions about horsing around

What is horsing around the present participle and gerund of?
Horsing around is the present participle and gerund of horse around.

Words near horsing around in the dictionary

  1. horsifying
  2. horsily
  3. horsiness
  4. horsing
  5. horsing about
  6. horsing around
  7. horsings
  8. Horsky
  9. Horsley
  10. Horsley Cross
  11. Horsley Park

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horsing around (page history and authors); horse around (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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