Horseplay \Horse"play`\, n. Rude, boisterous play.
Too much given to horseplay in his raillery. --Dryden.
He might work his way to a good crew, but a moment of horseplay would send him right back to nigger crew, where he would be forced to do something even worse than before.
"It was more or less silly horseplay," said police officer Werner Haffner.
Miller and its insurance companies said the harassment or horseplay was not directed at Beverly, or if it was, it was not unusual stress.
A producer of this opera has to make sure that the scenes of young people's horseplay have plenty of energy to them, if the right contrasts of mood are to be set up, and Phyllida Lloyd does so with conviction.
Parents are advised their children should be at the bus stop several minutes before the bus is scheduled to arrive, wait for the bus in a safe place away from where the bus stops and avoid horseplay.
"The breast incident ended it because Sergeant White thought it was getting out of hand," Cauley said. "It was good-spirited horseplay between friends.
The Railroad Police Benevolent Association said the tape was "just horseplay among the various participants."
There is a logic to this idiom which emerges early on through the horseplay of the two suitors.
And Bogdanov inflates chunks of it into British pantomime horseplay - to the extent of stepping out of character.