play along

phrasal verb

played along; playing along; plays along

: to agree to do or accept what other people want

They wanted me to cooperate with them, but I refused to play along.

—often + with

I refused to play along with their plan.

Examples of play along in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Survivor 50 Challenge by SurvivorOnCBS on YouTube Survivor is marking its 50th season by inviting viewers across the country to play along with a first-of-its-kind nationwide scavenger hunt, Paramount announced. —Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2026

There is also a chance that Rodriguez, a cunning politician who has presented herself as a technocrat who has revived the Venezuelan oil industry, would not play along or that her grip on power does not hold. —Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 5 Jan. 2026

Hosted by Saturday Night Live’s Mikey Day, this bake-off game show is fun to play along with as celebrity judges try to guess which objects are regular objects, and which are actually made of cake. —Will Harris, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Jan. 2026

Getting Netanyahu to play along wasn’t inevitable either. —Daniel Depetris, Twin Cities, 4 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for play along

• evensong
• livelong
• overlong
• vietcong
• agung
• belong
• birdsong
• furlong
• headlong
• headstrong
• lifelong
• plainsong