A man who works as a professional at doing this action calls himself an "actor" at first, and his job tires and jades him in a Heinrich Boll story.  
In Chandler Harris's Tales of Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit sends Brer fox into a what he claims is his place for doing this activity, which turns out to be a hornet's nest.  The subtitle of Edna Ferber's first novel, Dawn O'Hara, claimed that the title character did this.  A man who works as a professional at doing this action calls himself an "actor" at first, and his job tires and jades him in a Heinrich Boll story.  The Nabokov work Camera Obscura was revised so that its title invoked this action "in the Dark," while a work that stars James Rogers by Langston Hughes is titled "not without" this noun form of this action.  Caligula stabs Tiberius as the title character burns at the stake in a Eugene O'Neill work whose title claims, FTP, that Lazarus did what?
In Chandler Harris's Tales of Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit sends Brer fox into a what he claims is his place for doing this activity, which turns out to be a hornet's nest.  
{laughing} (accept word forms like laughed, laughs, laughter, etc.)