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[ UK /hˈɔːsple‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈhɔɹsˌpɫeɪ/ ]
NOUN
  1. rowdy or boisterous play

How To Use horseplay In A Sentence

  • When he stands up and defends himself, well, that's when it turns from just some maybe horseplay to the flicking of the arm to the violent confrontation.
  • There are excuses: which one of us would happily challenge a group of teenagers - and who is to judge what is horseplay and what is more sinister?
  • ‘The actions are not simple fun and horseplay and can only lead to suffering and perhaps the death of someone in your own community,’ he said.
  • BLOOMINGTON -- A 16-year-old Bloomington boy remained hospitalized in critical condition Tuesday night after being run over by a van during what police described as horseplay with friends Monday in the O†™ Neil Park parking lot. News from www.pantagraph.com
  • They began to horseplay when the teacher put Mary up for the monitor.
  • Of course, these insights were only revealed in between the necessary mad, frenetic spurts of brotherly horseplay.
  • We spent hours at this horseplay in the snow that winter.
  • Balfour's injury was the result of what manager Joe Maddon described as horseplay between the reliever and pitching coach Jim Hickey. CNY Central - Local News
  • BROWN: Well, there was also some -- what ` s called horseplay in the workplace according to her lawyer where some people were slapping each other on their rear ends. CNN Transcript Jan 10, 2008
  • It will therefore come as no surprise to learn that I blame the recent eruption of what the rugby authorities used to term "good-natured horseplay" in our major cities on one thing – the breakdown of the sort of traditional sporting partnership – Trueman and Statham, Beardsley and Lineker, Bruce and Pallister – that once brought stability to the life of youngsters everywhere. What has Wayne Rooney got in common with a celebrated giant panda?
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