Usually means: Rough, boisterous play; often physical.
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  1. horseplay: Merriam-Webster
  2. horseplay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horseplay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. horseplay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. horseplay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Horseplay, horseplay: Wordnik
  7. horseplay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. horseplay: Wiktionary
  9. horseplay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. horseplay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. horseplay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Horseplay, horseplay: Dictionary.com
  13. horseplay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Horseplay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Horseplay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. horseplay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. horseplay: Rhymezone
  18. Horseplay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. horseplay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. horseplay: FreeDictionary.org
  21. horseplay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. horseplay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. horseplay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. horseplay: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Rough or rowdy play that can often result in unintentional physical harm.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To engage in horseplay.

Similar:
rough-and-tumble, overreach, edge play, play, punishment, manhandling, brawling, bruising, plunging, violence, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, decorum, sobriety, solemnity

Types:
pranks, roughhousing, teasing, tickling, wrestling, chasing, play fighting, more...

Adjectives:
rough, much, such, little, mere, sexual, usual, boisterous, verbal, physical, crude



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Similar:
rough-and-tumble, overreach, edge play, play, punishment, manhandling, brawling, bruising, plunging, violence, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, decorum, sobriety, solemnity

Types:
pranks, roughhousing, teasing, tickling, wrestling, chasing, play fighting, more...

Adjectives:
rough, much, such, little, mere, sexual, usual, boisterous, verbal, physical, crude



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