practical joke
act meant to produce humor by causing annoyance, alarm, confusion, discomfort, or embarrassment, but no lasting harm
lace card
form of mechanical system disruption
milkshaking
use of milkshakes for political protest
the circle game
online and in-person pranking game
travelling gnome prank
Practical joke
Dreadnought hoax
1910 practical joke by Horace de Vere Cole
glitter bombing
act of protest involving glitter
pantsing
pulling down of a person's trousers
Monster Pig
giant pig
Berners Street Hoax
1809 practical joke by Theodore Hook in London
hot foot
using a source of flame near a victim's foot
Sawing off of Manhattan Island
purported 19th century hoax
False King of Belgium
Student joke at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
giant penguin hoax
fictitious bird resulting from a hoax
Pull my finger
practical joke
part-time job terrorism
Japanese social phenomenon
Knock, knock, ginger
children's game
hack at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
prank at or by MIT, an American university
trick fountain
practical joke folly
Happy Corner
Wikimedia list article
black fax
prank fax transmission designed to waste the recipient's ink or paper
panty raid
1950s American college prank
Pesky Pants
practical joke