Synonyms of roughhousing

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noun

as in horseplay

wildly playful or mischievous behavior

roughhousing was simply part of growing up in a family with four boys

Synonyms & Similar Words

• horseplay
• joking
• roughhouse
• hijinks
• funning
• clowning
• monkeying
• tomfoolery
• skylarking
• buffoonery
• playfulness
• slapstick
• monkey business
• high jinks
• clownery
• foolery
• horsing around
• shenanigan(s)
• silliness
• monkeyshine(s)
• rambunctiousness
• mischief
• rowdiness
• boisterousness
• jesting
• rowdyism
• deviltry
• nonsense
• sporting
• childishness
• romping
• trickery
• gambolling
• clownishness
• frolicking
• foolishness
• merrymaking
• roguishness
• rascality
• revelry
• frivolity
• cavorting
• mischievousness
• gamboling
• prankishness
• roistering
• sportiveness
• impishness
• waggery
• roguery
• rumbustiousness
• knavery
• devilry

roughhousing

2 of 2

verb

present participle of roughhouse

1

as in wrestling

Synonyms & Similar Words

• wrestling
• pummeling
• slapping
• abusing
• mistreating
• battering
• licking
• manhandling
• thrashing
• mauling
• bashing
• pounding
• buffeting
• pummelling
• misusing
• maltreating
• ill-treating
• harming
• injuring
• mishandling
• hurting
• ill-using
• lambasting
• wounding
• pommelling
• fighting
• attacking
• roughing (up)
• beating
• drubbing
• wronging
• pommeling
• jumping
• ambushing
• hitting
• oppressing
• persecuting
• tormenting
• knocking
• clobbering
• assailing
• torturing
• ganging up (on)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• petting
• caressing
• fondling
• coddling
• pampering
• fostering
• nurturing
• caring (for)
• mollycoddling

2

as in clowning

Synonyms & Similar Words

• clowning
• joyriding
• skylarking
• cutting up
• carousing
• revelling
• reveling
• dancing
• kiting
• roistering
• prancing
• romping
• horsing around
• leaping
• fooling around
• carrying on
• bounding
• cavorting
• hopping
• capering
• frolicking
• loping
• gamboling
• frisking
• rollicking
• tumbling
• skipping
• curveting
• springing
• sporting
• gambolling
• curvetting
• tripping
• larking
• disporting

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• pouting
• sulking
• stewing
• moping