lego

Danish toy bricks

Lego is informal shorthand for Lego bricks or the Lego brand of interlocking plastic building toys.

Though the company insists on "Lego bricks" rather than "Legos" or "lego," casual usage ignores this: The kids were playing with lego all afternoon.

The word sometimes appears as a modifier: lego set, lego movie. (Capitalized Lego is the trademark.)

building

bricks

Fired clay building units

snap · interlock · stack · structure · pieces · sets · kits · instructions · modular · stackable

play

toys

Objects for amusement

creative · playset · minifigures · themes · pretend · storytelling · adventure · roleplay · games · entertainment

Categories
Opposites
construction method

legoplaydough

Malleable children's craft material

clay · kinetic sand · modeling clay · finger painting · drawing

material composition

legowooden blocks

Solid toy cubes

sand · Lincoln Logs · Play-Doh · clay · kinetic sand

play structure

legofree play

Self-directed recreational time

sandbox play · finger painting · stuffed animals · dolls · imaginative play

Phrases
Family

Legoland

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G