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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

We held frequent "roughhouses" there, the younger of us ... to the annoyance of Speedwell.

From Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative by Kemp, Harry

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