Definition for Playing:

• the act of playing a musical instrument

Synonyms for Playing:

• adj.

  •acting (adjective)
  • enactment.
  •loose (adjective)
  • high living,
  • swinging.
  •performing (adjective)
  • more exhibiting,
  • dis-playing,
  • more displaying,
  • dis playing,
  • most exhibiting,
  • most displaying.

• n.

  •act (noun)
  • playing.
  •acting (noun)
  • stagecraft,
  • feigning,
  • characterization,
  • hamming,
  • portraying,
  • pantomime,
  • Imitating,
  • stooging,
  • playings,
  • characterizations,
  • posturings,
  • seemings,
  • seeming,
  • Theatricals,
  • Enacting,
  • pantomimes.
  •dalliance (noun)
  • dillydallyings,
  • de-lay,
  • dilly-dallyings,
  • de lays,
  • fritterings,
  • frivolings,
  • triflings,
  • loafings,
  • de-laying,
  • putterings,
  • loiterings,
  • de-lays,
  • dabblings,
  • de laying,
  • toyings,
  • dilly dallyings,
  • idlings,
  • delayings,
  • procrastinatings,
  • de lay.
  •enactment (noun)
  • personation,
  • Re-presentation,
  • personations.
  •recitation (noun)
  • holding forths,
  • dis course,
  • re-citations,
  • re citation,
  • de-claiming,
  • de-livery,
  • de claiming,
  • dis-course,
  • re citations,
  • declaimings,
  • dis courses,
  • dis-coursings,
  • de liveries,
  • dis-coursing,
  • de livery,
  • dis-courses,
  • dis coursing,
  • re counting,
  • de-liveries,
  • soliloquizings,
  • discoursings,
  • dis coursings,
  • re-citation,
  • recountings,
  • re-counting,
  • narratings.
  •sportive (noun)
  • Gamboling,
  • active.

• v.

  •dramatizing (verb)
  • pantomiming,
  • Burlesquing,
  • Presenting,
  • choreographing,
  • Characterizing,
  • Dramatizing,
  • miming,
  • Improvising.
  •performing music (verb)
  • singing,
  • practicing,
  • Serenading,
  • jamming,
  • Harmonizing,
  • soloing.

• Other synonyms:

  •betting
  • gambling.
  •Other relevant words:
  • looking,
  • Pottering,
  • accepting,
  • forging,
  • Bumping,
  • buffoonery,
  • Displaying,
  • employment,
  • bow,
  • Dabbling,
  • observance,
  • counting,
  • Staking,
  • pretending,
  • souring,
  • fluttering,
  • Manoeuvring,
  • representation,
  • portrayal,
  • imparting,
  • Typifying,
  • subject,
  • moulding,
  • Maneuvering,
  • exhibition,
  • appearance,
  • jerking off,
  • blinking,
  • campaigning,
  • Manipulating,
  • adjoining,
  • piping,
  • contacting,
  • operating,
  • flickery,
  • conveying,
  • Romancing,
  • shirking,
  • dancing,
  • quivery,
  • Risking,
  • diddling,
  • foregathering,
  • fetching,
  • fluttery,
  • flashing,
  • feign,
  • assembling,
  • yield,
  • contributing,
  • karma,
  • mimicry,
  • bowing,
  • smattering,
  • Mulcting,
  • masquerade,
  • bantering,
  • bowl,
  • butterflying,
  • Vying,
  • utilize,
  • golf,
  • molding,
  • tending,
  • aflicker,
  • manipulate,
  • casting lots,
  • Rooking,
  • Extending,
  • filling,
  • unravelling,
  • accomplishment,
  • biting,
  • playful,
  • hokum,
  • play-acting,
  • imitation,
  • Admitting,
  • Jobbing,
  • confronting,
  • coquetry,
  • calculating,
  • Tinkering,
  • play out,
  • apply,
  • play over,
  • Behaving,
  • Fooling,
  • Cropping,
  • persisting,
  • Aping,
  • business,
  • embodiment,
  • entertain,
  • Kneading,
  • merry,
  • execution,
  • overacting,
  • Instituting,
  • clear stage,
  • Farcing,
  • lambent,
  • pay,
  • Lamming,
  • Wagering,
  • matter,
  • happening,
  • personification,
  • Bunking,
  • moving,
  • flowing,
  • Crooking,
  • suffer,
  • Cavorting,
  • disport,
  • turning,
  • Mashing,
  • gaming,
  • patter,
  • Cinching,
  • speculation,
  • wavery,
  • prevailing,
  • contend,
  • Cultivating,
  • gestate,
  • Carrying,
  • pitch,
  • cardsharping,
  • Twanging,
  • efficiency,
  • Defrauding,
  • Forming,
  • enduring,
  • ply,
  • Loitering,
  • hunting,
  • hold,
  • dramatization,
  • deed,
  • Impersonating,
  • displace,
  • slapstick,
  • Romping,
  • betting,
  • gag,
  • bickering,
  • decree,
  • corresponding,
  • projection,
  • Encountering,
  • Adding,
  • Puttering,
  • symbolizing,
  • operate,
  • Depending,
  • stage directions,
  • wavering,
  • be played,
  • functioning,
  • incarnation,
  • sortition,
  • roleplaying,
  • piddling,
  • depiction,
  • messing around,
  • Swindling,
  • exemplifying,
  • assuming,
  • playact,
  • exercising,
  • consider,
  • exploiting,
  • fiddling,
  • passing,
  • Pranking,
  • nobbling,
  • accept,
  • evenhanded justice,
  • matching,
  • dramatisation,
  • commanding,
  • margining,
  • fermenting,
  • converging,
  • Consorting,
  • behave,
  • flirting,
  • Gambolling,
  • Disporting,
  • utilise,
  • landing,
  • dawdling,
  • jesting,
  • exhibit,
  • Fulfilling,
  • Paddling,
  • card,
  • toying,
  • stage business,
  • spieling,
  • flirtation,
  • follow,
  • numbering,
  • playacting,
  • touring,
  • scripting,
  • in concert,
  • guiding,
  • lead,
  • Capering,
  • playing around,
  • acquiring,
  • unraveling,
  • Conning,
  • solving,
  • dumb show,
  • Influencing,
  • ham,
  • Hazarding,
  • flickering,
  • Comprising,
  • assume,
  • manage,
  • interpreting,
  • Personating,
  • gig,
  • constitution,
  • gathering,
  • create,
  • byplay,
  • edict,
  • deploy,
  • play,
  • Larking,
  • Piecing,
  • heroics,
  • actioning,
  • Adopting,
  • handling,
  • Receiving,
  • joking,
  • kidding around,
  • engagement,
  • show,
  • scoping,
  • perform,
  • discharge,
  • live,
  • performance,
  • Escaping,
  • fooling around,
  • gay,
  • monkeying around,
  • Coquetting,
  • laddering,
  • philandering,
  • administer,
  • representing,
  • shimmering,
  • compete,
  • act,
  • fulfillment,
  • mimesis,
  • stunt,
  • coursing,
  • sporting,
  • presentation,
  • interpretation,
  • achievement,
  • quivering,
  • Bestowing,
  • appearing,
  • Chancing,
  • mapping,
  • picture,
  • vie,
  • executing,
  • symbolising,
  • pitching,
  • frisking,
  • Constituting,
  • hoke,
  • impersonation,
  • dissembling,
  • stroboscopic,
  • simulate,
  • Forcing,
  • monkeying,
  • defending,
  • mummery,
  • licking,
  • posing,
  • Dallying,
  • Laming,
  • inclining,
  • Mimicking,
  • deliver,
  • reckoning,
  • portrait.

Paraphrases for Playing:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    replaying, 'replaying, betting.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    play-out.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    rules, cheers, equality, competition, playtime, Propagating.
  • Verb, past tense
    Became, Took.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    laying, Displaying, participating, paying, Staying, Cooperating, supplying, Speculating, pleasing, Activities, factors, demonstrating, Manipulating, Fooling, representing, competing, circulating, assuming, contributing, falsifying, operating, supporting, helping, Accomplishing, accepting, Facilitating, developing, appearing, Placing, Administering, Guaranteeing, leading, working, emphasizing, Employing, intervening, communicating, Presenting, Distributing, handling, Adopting, Delivering, Practising, Attempting, travelling, installing, Realizing, Maintaining, diminishing, exercising, exploiting, Advocating, releasing, walking, varying, Enjoying, Carrying, gathering, Utilizing, Expecting, attending, pretending, arguing, Blackmailing, tackling, satisfying, pursuing, Adjusting, upholding, always, Involving, feeling, experience, Mobilizing, highlighting, enabling, Behaving, Addressing, Shouldering, Discharging, Exerting, Describing, Abandoning, sitting, passing, changing, Reciting, Promoting, instrument, undertaking, Receiving, retaining, Arising, honouring, observing, Evolving, calling, Allowing, underlying, filling, Providing, investing, Acquitting, happening, proceeding, moving, Responding, climbing, lacking, speaking, executing, Commencing, Achieving, talking, holding, failing, faking, Submitting, becoming, spreading, staging, functioning, stalling, roll, rolling, minimizing, Attaining, watching, incurring, Treating, stretching, using, singing, Harnessing, defending, Gaining, Committing, shitting, ..., Kidding, starting, assuring, conducting, streaming, Discussing, hitting, Occurring, facing, Earning, banging, bickering, cases, Waging, covering, saving, Enforcing, cracking, taking, takes, pushing, touching, bearing, Throwing, forging, looking, Having, driving, tracking, keeping, putting, drawing, riding, beginning, \, Effecting, Rocking, pulling, reducing, stroking, ordering, reaching, joining, going, giving, bring, bringing, seeking, coming, ensuring, rigging, Risking, honoring, focusing, setting, Securing, kicking, sending, turning, trying, wanting, sounding, ringing, mount, mounting, run, firing, winning, meeting, ii, Forming, Doing, Against, getting, meaning.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    performs, Exercises.
  • Verb, base form
    remember.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    play, playback.
  • Proper noun, singular
    play, playback.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    play, playback, playground, footing, gameplay.
  • Interjection
    play.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Occupying, complying, leveraging, replicating, implementing, Fulfilling, fucking, interpreting, laughing, engaging, tampering, practicing, practices, Adhering, Contesting, Assisting, matching, complete, completing, Tinkering, fiddling, toying, teasing, listening, joking, Messing, playback, Propagating.
  • Verb, base form
    fulfil.

Playing Sentence Examples:

• It seemed as though he were playing a part.

• " Oh, we were playing, and we thought we'd go without any lunch.

Hypernym for Playing:

• n.

  • act
    transposition, bowing, piping, pitching, bowling, catching, stopping, golfing.

Hyponym for Playing:

• n.

  • act
    musical performance, action.