roughhouses
- plural of roughhouse.
Example Sentences
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My elementary school daughter won't wear "pretty" clothes, roughhouses with her dad, likes baby animals, befriends mostly girls and identifies as a girl.
From New York Times • Nov. 24, 2017
Some days at home he wears dresses, paints his fingernails and plays with dolls; other days, he roughhouses, rams his toys together or pretends to be Spider-Man.
From New York Times • Aug. 12, 2012
He lives in a sunny, 14-room house with an adjoining tennis court and swimming pool where he roughhouses in off hours with four shiny, beaming sons.
From Time Magazine Archive
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We held frequent "roughhouses" there, the younger of us ... to the annoyance of Speedwell.
From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry