What's "horsing"? Here's an extract from The catcher in the rye; I was feeling sort of tired from the trip to New York and all, and I started yawning. Then I started horsing around a little bit. Sometimes I horse around quite a lot, just to keep from getting bored. What I did was, I pulled the old peak of my hunting hat around to the front, then pulled it way down over my eyes. That way, I couldn't see a goddam thing. "I think I'm going blind," I said in this very hoarse voice. "Mother darling, everything's getting so dark in here." "You're nuts. I swear to God," Ackley said. "Mother darling, give me your hand, Why won't you give me your hand?"