horse-play

Even the horse-play fighting of small boys is a good thing.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

There was some booing from those more thoughtless and excitable souls to whom a crowd is always an occasion for noise and horse-play.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

Even the horse-play fighting of small boys is a good thing.

Play is good for you 2009

'Tis horse-play this, and those jests (as he [2184] saith) are no better than injuries, biting jests, mordentes et aculeati, they are poisoned jests, leave a sting behind them, and ought not to be used.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

It is true that, except Voltaire and Maupertuis, most of the French philosophers whom Frederick seduced into coming to live at Berlin were not too good for the corporal's horse-play of which they were the victims.

Voltaire 2007

What's the big thing about being poked on the rear with a hot dog? it sounds like innocent male bonding/horse-play to me.

Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Tuesday 2006

I mean, he even gave me bruises when he would horse-play.

CNN Transcript Mar 28, 2006 2006

There was some booing from those more thoughtless and excitable souls to whom a crowd is always an occasion for noise and horse-play.

The War of the Worlds Herbert George 2006

He had the habit of pulling their ears and pinching their cheeks when he was in good humor, and of pulling the ears and whiskers of men, and of striking and horse-play with them, to his last days.

Representative Men 2006

Nothing is more contrary to les bienseances than horse-play, or jeux de main of any kind whatever, and has often very serious, sometimes very fatal consequences.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005