horse around

verb

horsed around; horsing around; horses around

intransitive verb

: to engage in horseplay
horse around together, joking and laughing and pushing each otherD. K. Shipler

Examples of horse around in a Sentence

the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard
Recent Examples on the Web That can include a weekend getaway to Santa Barbara, or just horsing around with his 5-year-old son playing a toddler version of basketball. Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 11 July 2024 Turner was seen horsing around with the British aristocrat at a polo match at his family's estate in West Sussex, England in late June. Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 8 July 2024 Melissa Joan Hart on nearly being fired from Sabrina over Maxim photo shoot: 'Worst day of my life' Other photos on Hart’s profile show her family horsing around in the Truckee River, swimming in the lake, and relaxing on the beach. Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 4 July 2024 Grandmaster Han An, 59; his wife, Hong, 55; sons Simon and Christian, 20 and 18, and 22-year-old daughter Hannah at first thought the sounds emanating from the Cricket Wireless store next door were just employees horsing around. Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 20 June 2024 Younger users lapped up its fun-house features and spent hours on it horsing around. Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2024 In the background, her housemates horse around, pretending to have a threesome—the kind of outrageous hookup their producers had hoped for all along. Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 15 June 2024 Bella isn’t the only member of her family who loves to horse around. Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 12 June 2024 Monday afternoon, the Kenosha County Sheriff's Department responded to a call of possible horsing around. Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 30 Apr. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1919, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of horse around was in 1919

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Cite this Entry

“Horse around.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/horse%20around. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.

Kids Definition

horse around

verb
: to engage in horseplay : fool
was horsing around instead of studying
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