The playing field is used during the week for training, and knockabout sessions.

A lot of the movie's energy comes from its knockabout farce.

He's just an ordinary knockabout like you and me.

His life was a tragedy written in the terms of knockabout farce.

There was a refreshing absence of jokes and political knockabout.

He failed to do that today, but his knockabout was perfectly serviceable.

Indeed, I've often enjoyed a quiet knockabout all by myself.'

That was still true during my knockabout years.

There is some real possibility for knockabout satire here, almost all of it squandered.

Unexpectedly complex relationships are revealed in their knockabout play.

Her knockabout act in the restaurant would have satisfied the most jaded critic.

Having settled myself, or my property rather, I put on my knockabout clothes and went out for a walk.

The men of the market are all dressed in knockabout zhlub.

This is good knockabout stuff, a heady and unnerving glimpse into a possible future.

I must have been mad to come to this sumptuous place dressed up like a knockabout comedian.

However, he is just offering us a knockabout contribution, and I do not believe that that will get the debate any further.

"Celtic Pride" has ingredients that could have made for a tough knockabout farce.

Much of the comedy is knockabout for knockabout's sake.

On one of these trips, in a 19-foot knockabout, before the days of power, they rounded Mt.

Blue jeans as a style statement should be skipped too (though of course not for knockabout practicality).

"It's absolute nonsense, of course, but does quite nicely as knockabout Friday night fun.

The fact that it's played more or less dead straight, rather than being a knockabout gag-fest, means it might struggle to find an audience.

The story - softball game, attempted murder by beaning, a suicide - is knockabout.

He is unable to separate his contribution to what should be a well-informed debate from a satellite television knockabout.

In the 1980s 14 issues of the eponymous Knockabout anthologies were produced.

They are both people who have been knocked around by life.

By the third she knew how knocked around he was.

She's kind of just knocking around the house right now.

I thought I'd get out and knock around a little.

In the heat of the action, I was knocked around several times.

Knocked around for a couple years doing this and that.

I've known him for years, while he was knocking around.

"Now you look forward to knocking around other people instead of your own guys."

And if you get knocked around a little bit, that's just how it goes.

If anyone was going to get knocked around, he wanted it to be him.

You're going to get knocked around and beat down a little bit.

There's one or two people knocking around that'll talk to you.

The professor told me he'd knocked around there far too long.

He just knocked around with some very funny looking women.

But Cash had not knocked around the world for nothing.

After the war he knocked around here and there, not quite sure what the hell to do with himself.

I'm not used to getting knocked around without at least some idea of what's happening and why.

Knocked around a bit, got involved with police work, liked it.

Anyone who has knocked around an empty office in recent days knows what that means.

I mean, we have Paula is back, among other people who are still knocking around.

You have an idea for a novel that's been knocking around a while.

After a lot of knocking around here and there, Larry brought the boy to this country.

No one ever knocks around here, you just bust in.

How many of them were there knocking around the galaxy?

They might well still be knocking around the family attic.