Horsed around is an idiom that means to act in a silly or playful manner. The crossword solutions for this term are RODE (4 letters), TROTTED (7 letters), and MESSED (6 letters). Rode is the past tense of the verb 'RIDE, ' which means to sit on and control the movement of a horse. TROTTED is the past tense of the verb 'TROT, ' which is a type of gait that a horse can take where it moves its legs in diagonal pairs. Messed is the past tense of the verb 'MESS, ' which means to do something in a careless or haphazard way. All three words together suggest that someone was acting in a silly or playful manner while riding, trotting, or messing around with a horse.