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Toddlers continue to kick, bite and hit; little boys continue to play-fight; people of all ages continue to snipe and bicker, and most of them continue to harbor violent fantasies and to enjoy violent entertainment.

Violence Vanquished Steven Pinker 2011

Much the same as how puppies and kittens and cubs play-fight to prepare themselves for adult-hood.

In Which I Discuss...Baltimore, YA, and Violence wendigomountain 2010

My dogs like to play-fight but they don't hurt each other, they do look mean.

Field & Stream 2009

Kruger is a wilderness of scrub -- "the bush" locals call it -- where zebras and giraffes casually wander along the roads, graceful buck impalas compete for herds of does, and young hippos play-fight in shallow lakes.

Valerie Tarico: Too Much of a Good Thing, Elephants and Us 2010

They will play-fight with any other cat or dog, not realizing they are about to get whomped on.

Hello Charlie!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

Both sexes run around and play like crazy, but males play-fight more.

"If the theory's right..." Ann Althouse 2005

My older brother, Roy, and I had a play-fight relationship.

Paul D. Boyer - Autobiography 1998

It was during a play-fight with a fellow juvenile offender that his face was slashed.

Rhapsody In Time Judith O’Brien 1994

It was during a play-fight with a fellow juvenile offender that his face was slashed.

Rhapsody In Time Judith O’Brien 1994

And it is questionable whether the instinctive and emotional attitude of the play-fight, to take one example, can be identified with those which accompany fighting in earnest, though no doubt they are closely related and have some common factors.

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880