noun
- rough or boisterous play or behavior
Usage: informal
verb
- to engage in rough or boisterous play
Usage: informal
Examples
- The children’s roughhouse in the living room knocked over a lamp.
- No roughhouse allowed in the library.
- The boys were roughhousing in the backyard after school.
- Stop roughhousing and sit down for dinner.
- Their playful roughhouse turned into a real argument.
- The teacher told the students not to roughhouse during recess.
- The puppies love to roughhouse with each other on the grass.