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playingverbpresent participle of play to engage in activity for amusementtold her son that he needed some time to run and play in the yard after his hard work dallying, disporting, frolicking, recreating, rollicking, skylarking, sporting, toying cavorting, frisking, gamboling(or gambolling), rompingdabbling, triflingamusing, diverting, entertainingdelighting, pleasingdabbling, fiddling (around), messing around, puttering (around)bumming (around), dawdling, goldbricking, hanging, hanging about(British), idling, loafing, lounging (around or about), relaxing, resting, screwing around, slacking (off)jesting, joking, teasing drudging, laboring, plodding, plugging (away), slaving, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, working to present a portrayal or performance ofplayed Hamlet in the campus production of the classic acting, doing, impersonating, interpreting, performing, portraying depicting, dramatizing, rendering, representingacting out, enacting, pantomiming, playacting, role-playing, taking onoveracting, overplaying, underplayingaping, clowning, hamming, imitating, masquerading, mimicking, miming, posing (as)starring (in)coacting(or co-acting), costarring(or co-starring) to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behaviorstop playing the innocent, because I know that you were behind that prank acting, impersonating, masquerading (as), personating, posing (as) aping, copying, imitating, mimicking, miming, mocking, monkeying, parodying, travestyingperforming, portraying to spend time in aimless activityjust played around while we waited for the bus to arrive doodling, fiddling (around), fooling around, fribbling, goofing (around), hanging about(British), kicking around, messing around, monkeying (around), pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, hanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, loungingclowning (around), horsing arounddiddling (with), tinkering buckling (down), knuckling down, setting (to), settling (down) to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficientlythis is how we're going to play the situation addressing, contending (with), coping (with), fielding, grappling (with), hacking, handling, managing, maneuvering, manipulating, negotiating, swinging, taking, treating engineering, finessing, jockeyingbringing off, carrying off, carrying out, getting off, pullingcommanding, directing, guiding, steeringcontrolling, micromanaging, regulating, runningreacting (to), responding (to) coming to grips with, having a grip on botching, bungling, foozling, fumbling, goofing (up), lousing up, messing (up), mishandling, muffing, scamping 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 betting, gambling, going, laying, putting, staking, wagering bidding, offeringadventuring, chancing, hazarding, speculating, venturingendangering, imperiling(or imperilling), jeopardizing |