horse around

as in to fool around
to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard

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Recent Examples on the Web Grandmaster Han An, 59; his wife, Hong, 55; sons Simon and Christian, 20 and 18, and 22-year-old daughter Hannah at first thought the sounds emanating from the Cricket Wireless store next door were just employees horsing around. Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024 Younger users lapped up its fun-house features and spent hours on it horsing around. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024 In the background, her housemates horse around, pretending to have a threesome—the kind of outrageous hookup their producers had hoped for all along. Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024 Bella isn’t the only member of her family who loves to horse around. Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 June 2024 See all Example Sentences for horse around 

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“Horse around.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/horse%20around. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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