verb
- engages in rough, boisterous play or fighting
Usage: informal
noun
- instances of rough, boisterous play or fighting
Usage: informal; plural form
Examples
- The children roughhouse in the backyard every afternoon.
- Dad always roughhouses with his sons before bedtime.
- The puppies love to roughhouse with each other.
- Mom told us to stop our roughhouses before someone gets hurt.
- The coach doesn’t allow any roughhouses during practice.
- Their playful roughhouses sometimes get too intense.