horseplay

• When it is remembered that Mark Twain began his career as one of the sage-brush writers and gave free play to his passion for horseplay, his desire to “lay a mine” for the other fellow, and his defiance of the traditional and the classic, it is not to be wondered at that Mme. —  Mark Twain
• McCracken had too genuine a love of horseplay, and of childish showing off. —  JULY, 1953 VOL
• Monk's horseplay was always horseplay, you never had to guess Suddenly Ham was worried about what they would find when they got to Monk. —  132 - Death Had Yellow Eyes
• Bill had done what every right wing talk show has done this week when discussing the recently released Bush torture memos - minimize the torture as mere fraternity horseplay, saying that it is only Henican's "opinion" that waterboarding is torture. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• The attorney for 29-year-old Ezra Wallace called the incident on a San Diego-to-Denver flight Aug. 1 distressing but said it was "horseplay," pointing to the lack of screaming from the girls. —  Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local

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