Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "playing" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

working

Causes

audience hears music competitiveness enjoyment fatigue feeling happy fitness fun get hungry getting tired getting tired from too much fun having fun initiating creative energy injuries injury learning loosing losing relaxation satisfaction skill development and interaction skinned knees using up energy win winning

Causes Desire

wash hands

Derived Terms

playing piece playing time

Derived From

play

Distinct From

working

Inflected/Variant Forms

play

Context

gerund of play

Prerequisites

doing fun enjoyment game game to play imagination toys

Has Property

essential to growing up fun

Subevents

becoming tired catch ball cheat concentrate and have fun drink bunch of hooch education having fun hurt yourself injury jump rope laugh laughing laughter learn learning lose track of time running throw ball

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

action activity musical performance performing arts

Type Of (IsA)

action information transfer intelligent agent activity making music musical performance performing art physical event recreational activity use of device use of devices way to learn social skills

Related Terms

ball-playing cardplaying extended playing time gameplaying hooky-playing level playing field long-playing massively multiplayer online role-playing game non-playing nonplaying playing card playing field playingly postplaying role playing game role-playing role-playing game role-playing video game roll-playing stageplaying

Related Terms

action activity arena childlike children children activity fun fun activity fun game game games having having fun kids kids together play recreation recreational together toys yards

Synonym Network

acting

Used For

being creative being happy calming down children children and children at heart children and chilfren at heart competing enjoyment everyone excercise excersize exercise exercising creativity fun gamers having fun learning leisure time passing time pleasure psychological release recreation relaxation relaxiation and exercise relaxing relieving stress socialising spending time with friends squirrels stimulating th imagination teaching using energy wasting time

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.