Usually means: Performing humorous acts to entertain.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word clowning:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. clowning: Merriam-Webster
  2. clowning: Collins English Dictionary
  3. clowning: Vocabulary.com
  4. Clowning, clowning: Wordnik
  5. clowning: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. clowning: Wiktionary
  7. clowning: Dictionary.com
  8. clowning: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Clowning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. clowning: Rhymezone
  11. clowning: FreeDictionary.org
  12. clowning: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. clowning: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clowning: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clowning: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clowning)

▸ noun:  Clownish behavior.
▸ noun:  The practice and study thereof.

Similar:
buffoonery, prank, drollery, frivolity, harlequinade, funniness, comedy, clownery, assclownery, harlequinism, more...

Types:
mime, juggling, stilt-walking, magic, balloon animals, more...

Phrases:
clowning around, Canadian clowning, more...

Adjectives:
such, much, little, verbal, mere, physical, deadly, good, usual, circus, pure



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Similar:
buffoonery, prank, drollery, frivolity, harlequinade, funniness, comedy, clownery, assclownery, harlequinism, more...

Types:
mime, juggling, stilt-walking, magic, balloon animals, more...

Phrases:
clowning around, Canadian clowning, more...

Adjectives:
such, much, little, verbal, mere, physical, deadly, good, usual, circus, pure



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