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playing

verb , present participle of play

Synonyms and Antonyms of playing

1 to engage in activity for amusement

told her son that he needed some time to run and play in the yard after his hard work

Synonyms of playing

dallying, disporting, frolicking, recreating, rollicking, skylarking, sporting, toying

Words Related to playing

cavorting, frisking, gamboling (or gambolling), romping

dabbling, trifling

amusing, diverting, entertaining

delighting, pleasing

dabbling, 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

Near Antonyms of playing

drudging, laboring, plodding, plugging (away), slaving, straining, striving, struggling, sweating, toiling, working

2 to present a portrayal or performance of

played Hamlet in the campus production of the classic

Synonyms of playing

acting, doing, impersonating, interpreting, performing, portraying

Words Related to playing

depicting, dramatizing, rendering, representing

acting out, enacting, pantomiming, playacting, role-playing, taking on

overacting, overplaying, underplaying

aping, clowning, hamming, imitating, masquerading, mimicking, miming, posing (as)

starring (in)

coacting (or co-acting), costarring (or co-starring)

3 to pretend to be (what one is not) in appearance or behavior

stop playing the innocent, because I know that you were behind that prank

Synonyms of playing

acting, impersonating, masquerading (as), personating, posing (as)

Words Related to playing

aping, copying, imitating, mimicking, miming, mocking, monkeying, parodying, travestying

performing, portraying

4 to spend time in aimless activity

just played around while we waited for the bus to arrive

Synonyms of playing

doodling, fiddling (around), fooling around, fribbling, goofing (around), hanging about [British], kicking around, messing around, monkeying (around), pottering (around), puttering (around), trifling

Words Related to playing

dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, hanging (around or out), idling, loafing, lolling, lounging

clowning (around), horsing around

diddling (with), tinkering

Near Antonyms of playing

buckling (down), knuckling down, setting (to), settling (down)

5 to deal with (something) usually skillfully or efficiently

this is how we're going to play the situation

Synonyms of playing

addressing, contending (with), coping (with), fielding, grappling (with), hacking, handling, managing, maneuvering, manipulating, negotiating, swinging, taking, treating

Words Related to playing

engineering, finessing, jockeying

bringing off, carrying off, carrying out, getting off, pulling

commanding, directing, guiding, steering

controlling, micromanaging, regulating, running

reacting (to), responding (to)

Phrases Synonymous with playing

coming to grips with, having a grip on

Near Antonyms of playing

botching, bungling, foozling, fumbling, goofing (up), lousing up, messing (up), mishandling, muffing, scamping

6 to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event

figuring that she had little to lose, she played her last few bucks on the state lottery

Synonyms of playing

betting, gambling, going, laying, putting, staking, wagering

Words Related to playing

bidding, offering

adventuring, chancing, hazarding, speculating, venturing

endangering, imperiling (or imperilling), jeopardizing

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