as in to fool around
to engage in attention-getting playful or boisterous behavior
the boys were horsing around on the boat when one of them fell overboard
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Younger users lapped up its fun-house features and spent hours on it horsing around.
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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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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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