| NOUN | act | practical joke | a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish) |
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| Meaning | A prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish). | |
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| Narrower | April fool | A practical joke or trick played on the first day of April |
| hotfoot | A practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it | |
| rag | A boisterous practical joke (especially by college students) | |
| snipe hunt | An elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it | |
| Broader | antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-on | A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement |
| Spanish | brega, broma pesada, chasco, chueca, jugarreta, pega, tártago, tiro, trastada, zumba | |
| Catalan | befa, broma, burla, derisió, escarniment, escarni, escarn, escarnot, irrisió, ludibri, mala passada, rifada, trufa | |
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