children's play
Kids at play
Children's play is activity engaged in by children for enjoyment rather than practical purpose—games, make-believe, running around.
The phrase appears most often in the expression child's play, meaning something extremely easy: Installing the software was child's play.
The singular form dominates; children's play typically appears only in academic or educational contexts discussing play as a developmental category.
- ball gamesCompetitions using spheres
- water balloonsProjectiles filled for soaking
- board gamesStructured tabletop play
- make-believeImaginative play or fantasy
- building blocksBasic units for construction
climbing · running · video games · sharing · crafting · pillow fight · recess · playground · monkey bars · hide-and-seek · Simon says · storytelling · fantasy worlds · hopscotch · puppet shows · tea party · teamwork · tag
- performancestalent show, dance routine, ballet, comedy act, variety show
- scriptsalphabet, Latin alphabet, Roman alphabet, Greek alphabet, Hebrew alphabet
children's playhard work
Sustained strenuous effort
herculean task · backbreaking work · heavy lifting · rocket science · brain surgery
children's playproductive labor
Work that creates goods
toil · hard labor · drudgery · employment · warfare