1. rough or boisterous play or behavior
Usage: informal

1. 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.