Skill in deceiving or misleading others in order to achieve one's purpose or benefit oneself; the action or fact of employing this skill; artful…

A juggler's trick; conjuring, jugglery; sleight of hand; a method of bringing something about as if by magic; trickery, deception.

In generalized sense: Trickery, hoaxing.

The action of lark, v.2; fun, frolic.

cutting-up. The action of to cut up at cut, v. phrasal verbs; spec. boisterous, frolicsome, or silly behaviour. (U.S.)

Originally U.S. (a) The act of making practical or verbal jokes; clowning. rare. (b) A person who ‘cuts up’ or capers (see to cut up 13 at cut, v.…

Trickery, skulduggery, machination, intrigue; teasing, ‘kidding’, nonsense; (usually plural) a plot, a trick, a prank, an exhibition of high spirits…

Nonsense, rubbish; fooling, hoaxing, humbugging.

School slang. The action of green, v.1 3; a hoax, a trick. Now rare.

Chiefly Irish English. As a mass noun: joking, kidding; playful deception; untruthful or absurd talk or ideas, nonsense.

the practice of attempting to deceive or mislead others in a playful way or as a joke; an instance of this.

Hoax, humbug; an instance of this.

The action of cod, v.2; joking, kidding, fooling.

†(a) plural, a low sporting club; also spec. the Adelphi (cf. 1889 at spoof, n. 1) (obsolete slang); (b) trickery, hoaxing.

joking, teasing; frequently in no kidding: I am not kidding; that is the truth.

The art of ‘kidding’ or deceiving; knowing or studied deception, mockery, humbug; teasing.