All right, just as you say," answered his cousin, and then he began some horseplay with Fred, which came to a sudden end when the youngest Rover tripped him up and sent him plunging into a snowbank on the side of the narrow stream.
You never want to try any horseplay when you are tramping or skating along with a loaded gun.
There is no allegory, no moral; merely satire on the fraudulent and hypocritical practices of pardoners and friars, together with some horseplay to raise a louder laugh.
Footnote 644: This was the beginning of horseplay which often ends in a bastinado.
With the examinations at an end, the Colby Hall cadets were allowed to do very much as they pleased, and on the last night at school there was the usual horseplay and cutting up generally.
Andy and Randy were indulging in some horseplay in their bedroom when they heard the door-bell ring.
Their usual horseplay was almost forgotten, and their faces were sober to the point of fear.
There was none of the kidding and horseplaythat would have been normal in such a group.
The various guild-choruses are full of humour, the many ridiculous things being saved from lapsing into mere horseplay and nonsense by the endless series of beautiful tunes.
The horseplay is extended and indulged in by them at the expense of passers-by, and to their annoyance.
They begin in horseplay among the lads at the street corner.
C2] for people or animals of the opposite sex to engage in horseplay with sexual overtones.
Ganáhan siyang mukundat sa mga bátà, He likes to engage in horseplay with the children.
In the Indian observance of the Holi next followed a series of performances characterized by rude horseplay and ribald singing.
The rudehorseplay which goes on is like that at the Saturnalia and on the English Plough Monday.
Of course, there was some horseplay in which even Phil Franklin indulged.
No noise and no horseplay or I'll do something that you won't forget in a hurry," and with this admonition he walked out of the room, closing and locking the door after him.
At first they were sent to private schools in the Metropolis, but the boys, led by Andy and Randy, showed such an aptitude for fun and horseplay that their parents were compelled to hold a consultation.
Many of the cadets were running around indulging in all sorts of horseplay while others were dancing around the bonfires singing the songs they had learned in the school and while at the encampments.
Shouting, singing, and indulging in horseplay the savages crowded round, watching the process.
These, though evidently men of authority, seemed little inclined to exert that attribute, and made no attempt to check the rowdiness and horseplay of the younger warriors.
Their childishness astonished Done, but he lived to find this a characteristic of the diggers in all parts; even the roughest men in the roughest camps exhibited a schoolboy's love of horseplay and a great capacity for primitive happiness.
Rough horseplayand rude practical joking were of the essence of humorous courtliness.
At many of the tables the jesting and horseplay become unspeakably ribald.
This ordeal passed, he pays a fee (divisible between the city and the guild) and undergoes an initiation, full of horseplay and absurd allegory.
When the horseplay had finally come to an end, the young folks walked out on the rocks where they might get a better view of the bay and the ocean beyond.
I'm going to cut out every bit of horseplay until after the examinations are over.
As was to be expected, there was a certain amount of horseplay in camp that evening to which those in charge turned something of a blind eye.
His constant horseplay and good humor are infectious.
Often this was all that the commonalty saw of an election, and a little horseplay was both expected and allowed.
By this time the crowd at the lower end had carried their joy and their horseplay elsewhere; and no attempt was made--Vaughan only wished an attempt had been made--to molest Wetherell.
Horseplay and practical jokes have been tolerated, at various times and places, at weddings.
Hence the customs arose which are now prevalent,--the concealment of all marital relations, the public ignoring of each other by the spouses, and the practical jokes and horseplay at weddings by boys and neighbors.
Amongst the Germanic nations, from a very early period, popular amusements consisted in pantomimes, mummery with animal masks, horseplay by clowns, etc.
In the conduct of the Roman soldiers from first to last the most striking feature is that at every point they turned their work into horseplay and merriment.
Their horseplay took the form of a mock coronation.
For no particular reason they were gloating over the cutting-off of aristocrats, whilst indulging in rough horseplay at the expense of the friends of the condemned.
Pierre and Louise stood on the other side of the scaffold, the heavy structure of which quite hid the ruffian Frochards and their horseplay with Picard.
Bricktop, while Housenlager feebly punched Tom in the ribs, a bit of horseplay that our hero was too tired to resent.
The tall pitcher was chiefly concerned to see that Dutch did no more "cutting up," and dropped the horseplay with which he was wont to amuse himself at all times.
The victim of that tyranny slunk away from the rough horseplay of his companions to muse, like Dobbin, over the 'Arabian Nights' in a corner, or find some amusement which his tormentors held to be only fit for girls.
The "jigging" refers to the doggerel verse of the earlier drama, and "clownage" to the crude horseplay intended to amuse the crowd.
Between these are wonder-stories of giants and fairies, satires on the monks, parodies on literature, and some examples of coarse horseplay for which Chaucer offers an apology, saying that he must let each pilgrim tell his tale in his own way.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horseplay" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
