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 But Priyanka, the oldest, drove her crazy, skipping school to horse around with her younger siblings. Qadri Inzamam Saumya Khandelwal, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2024 The youngsters sulk, stomp and scamper, pull pranks and horse around. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024 Perhaps a gallop at Griffith Park or lunging — driving a horse around a circle on a rope — in a patch of land called the Pollywog. Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023 As Mal looked on, the two men, drunk to the gills, were horsing around. Jordan Runtagh, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2023 The day before the show, horsing around in the basement, Miles climbed on top of the puppet theatre, fell off, and nearly broke his nose. Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2023 Read full article For thirty minutes, Smith and her fellow pediatric cardiac patients rode horses around Windrush’s barn, releasing their anxieties and expressing their vulnerabilities to the intelligent animals. Maggie Scales, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023 Bertuzzi accepted it, hugged his parents, and went back out to horse around. Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2023 For months, people have scrolled through Twitter, Instagram and TikTok to watch Grody and Patinkin debate, declaim, snuggle, bicker, horse around, play with their dog, Becky, obsess about politics and display their (lack of) knowledge about such topics as text-speak and the New York pizza rat. Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021

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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 29 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

horse around

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