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cavorting, clowning about, clowning around, fooling around, horseplay, play, playfulness, tomfoolery, buffoonery, mischief
revels, frolics, revelry, larks, antics, high jinks
informal skylarking
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playful, in jest, joking, jokey, as a joke, tongue in cheek, light-hearted, high-spirited, unserious, facetious, flippant, flip, glib, frivolous, for a laugh
to tease, teasing, bantering, whimsical
archaic frolicsome, sportive
rare jocose
SYNONYMS
taunt, poke fun at, chaff, tease, make jokes about, ridicule, mock, laugh at, guy, mimic, parody, caricature, lampoon, satirize, rag, quiz, be sarcastic about, deride, scoff at, jeer at, jibe at
informal take the mickey out of, send up, rib, josh, wind up, pull someone's leg, make a monkey of
North American informal goof on, rag on, pull someone's chain, razz
Australian, New Zealand informal poke mullock at, sling off at
British informal, dated rot, twit
dated make sport of
archaic smoke, rally