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playnoun activity engaged in to amuse oneselfit's such a delight to watch the children in their play dalliance, frolic, frolicking, fun, fun and games, recreation, relaxation, rollicking, sport gamboling(or gambolling), rompingamusement, diversion, entertainmenthobby, hobbyhorse, pastimedelight, enjoyment, pleasance, pleasurefriskiness, playfulness, sportiveness, wantonnessdevilment, devilry(or deviltry), hanky-panky, hob, impishness, jinks, knavery, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguishness, waggerybinge, fling, kick, lark, revel, rollick, spreehilarity, merriment, merrymaking, revelry, whoopeebuffoonery, high jinks(also hijinks), horseplay, tomfoolery drudgery, labor, workduty, obligation, responsibility a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stagewe'll be putting on a school play using that stage drama, dramatization interlude, playletcomedy, comedy drama, docudrama, dramedy, melodrama, monodrama, musical, musical comedy, psychodrama, tragedy, tragicomedymagnum opus, opus, workadaptation an attitude or manner not to be taken seriouslyI didn't mean to insult anyone, for it was all just play fun, game, jest, sport facetiousness, flightiness, flippancy, frivolity, frivolousness, frothiness, levity, light-mindedness, silliness earnest earnestness, gravity, seriousness, soberness, sobriety, solemnity the act or practice of employing something for a particular purposethe host's sense of humor was obviously in play during the awards ceremony application, employment, exercise, operation, usage, use exertionreuse disuse, nonuse a clever often underhanded means to achieve an endthe guy at the bar made an unusually creative play to get her phone number artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile bluff, end run, feintcheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickeryfraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindleblind, front, smoke screen sleight of hand to engage in activity for amusementtold her son that he needed some time to run and play in the yard after his hard work dally, disport, frolic, recreate, rollick, skylark, sport, toy cavort, frisk, gambol, rompdabble, trifleamuse, divert, entertaindelight, pleasedabble, fiddle (around), mess around, putter (around)bum (around), dawdle, goldbrick, hang, hang about(British), idle, loaf, lounge (around or about), relax, rest, screw around, slack (off)jest, joke, tease drudge, labor, plod, plug (away), slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, toil, work to present a portrayal or performance ofplayed Hamlet in the campus production of the classic act, do, impersonate, interpret, perform, portray depict, dramatize, render, representact out, enact, pantomime, playact, role-play, take onoveract, overplay, underplayape, clown, ham, imitate, masquerade, mime, mimic, pose (as)star (in)coact, costar to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behaviorstop playing the innocent, because I know that you were behind that prank act, impersonate, masquerade (as), personate, pose (as) ape, copy, imitate, mime, mimic, mock, monkey, parody, travestyperform, portray to spend time in aimless activityjust played around while we waited for the bus to arrive doodle, fiddle (around), fool around, fribble, goof (around), hang about(British), kick around, mess around, monkey (around), potter (around), putter (around), trifle dally, dawdle, dillydally, hang (around or out), idle, loaf, loll, loungeclown (around), horse arounddiddle (with), tinker buckle (down), knuckle down, set (to), settle (down) to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficientlythis is how we're going to play the situation address, contend (with), cope (with), field, grapple (with), hack, handle, manage, maneuver, manipulate, negotiate, swing, take, treat engineer, finesse, jockeybring off, carry off, carry out, get off, pullcommand, direct, guide, steercontrol, micromanage, regulate, runreact (to), respond (to) come to grips with, have a grip on botch, bungle, foozle, fumble, goof (up), louse up, mess (up), mishandle, muff, scamp to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain eventfiguring that she had little to lose, she played her last few bucks on the state lottery bet, gamble, go, lay, put, stake, wager bid, offeradventure, chance, hazard, speculate, ventureendanger, imperil, jeopardize n.fun, jest, sport, game, play mean action or speech that provides amusement or arouses laughter.fun usually implies laughter or gaiety but may imply merely a lack of serious or ulterior purpose.played cards just for fun jest implies lack of earnestness and may suggest a hoaxing or teasing.hurt by remarks said only in jest sport applies especially to the arousing of laughter against someone.teasing begun in sport led to anger game is close to sport, and often stresses mischievous or malicious fun.made game of their poor relations play stresses the opposition to earnest without implying any malice or mischief.pretended to strangle his brother in play before the 12th century |