play truant BrE
play hooky AmE , auch: play hookey AmE

The pool hall where I used to hide while playing hookey had been closed down.

I'd made sure you'd played hookey and been a-swimming.

Those boys were not only playing hookey but treating that gun like a cap pistol.

There is something about catching fish within the city limits that can only be compared to playing hookey.

In large schools where law enforcement officers are present, the fine for "playing hookey" can range from $250 to as much as $5000.

The officials, he added, assured him that youths would not be arrested "simply for playing hookey."

"A situation came up," said Jeremy, feeling like a child caught playing hookey.

And now I'm playing hookey for the rest of the afternoon.

Well, we can check out the possibility that your father played hookey.

This comes of playing hookey and doing everything a feller's told not to do.