child's play

noun

1

: an extremely simple task or act

2

: something that is insignificant

figuring out the password was child's play

Synonyms

• nothing
• triviality

Examples of child's play in a Sentence

Landing a job should be child's play for someone with his skills.

the injury is child's play, just a scratch

Recent Examples on the Web

Beginning Thursday, Beyond the Gates is set to plunge viewers into a three-episode arc that makes Dani (Karla Mosley) bringing a gun to a wedding look like child's play. —Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2025

Compensating for this decline in operating income might not be child's play. —Caroline Reid, Forbes, 20 Sep. 2024

Indecipherable homework assignments that would mystify mere mortals are, well, child's play to Suborno, something his parents marveled at early on. —Susan Spencer, CBS News, 5 Jan. 2025

The brilliant, unique world of child prodigies Math and physics are mere child's play to 12-year-old Suborno Bari, a child prodigy who began giving university lectures at age 7. —David Morgan, CBS News, 2 Jan. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for child's play

• airway
• allay
• archway
• array
• ashtray
• astray
• aue
• away
• ballet
• belay
• beltway
• beret

Kids Definition

child's play

noun

: something that is very easy to do or is unimportant