Definitions for playing
play·ing

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. playingnoun

   the act of playing a musical instrument

2. playingnoun

   the action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation

3. acting, playing, playacting, performingnoun

   the performance of a part or role in a drama

Wiktionary(2.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. playingnoun

   An occasion on which something, such as a song or show, is played.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Playing

   of Play

2. Playing

   a. & vb. n. of Play

Editors Contribution(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. playingverb

   Verb form of play.

   The children are playing in the garden.

   Submitted by MaryC on April 24, 2020  

Matched Categories

1. • Action
   • Activity
   • Musical Performance
   • Performing Arts

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'playing' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1054

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'playing' in Written Corpus Frequency: #768

Anagrams for playing »

1. plygain

How to pronounce playing?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say playing in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of playing in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of playing in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of playing in a Sentence

1. Calgary Flames:

   They seemed hungrier than us. Seemed like they wanted it more than us, no one is happy with the way we played in the first couple periods. (Smith) bailed us out too many times to count. Hes been playing great and weve got to do a better job in front of him.

2. Marcus Plescia:

   If there's issues with funding and any of those areas of progress start to fall off, we're going to be right back to the situation where we're playing catch-up and don't have enough.

3. Roger McGuinn:

   But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

4. Alexandra Bell:

   China isn't even in the same ballpark, they're not even playing the same game.

5. Michelle Obama:

   I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent, black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.

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