Play
Play can refer to more than one thing:
- Play is a common literary form generally designed for performance in a theatre.
- Play is the title of a specific play written by Samuel Beckett.
- Play or activate media such as a DVD, movie, CD, or album.
- To play is also the verb used for the activity of musicians performing or improvising music using musical instruments or specific performances ("play a show"). None the less, these activities can be as much demanding work as any other skilled profession.
- Play is unrestrained, amusing interaction with people or things, often in the context of learning. Play is equally a common and a behavioral science term, and the act of playing has, in recent decades, come into light as essential behavior of species' environmental and social adaptation processes, such as in learning basic hunting skills. Playing tools are toys. See: games, playing with sand
- Play (music group) is also a pop group from Sweden, composed of four teenage girls assembled by Sony Music. In 2002, the group toured the United States, and they have been on the covers of such teen magazines as Blast!.
- Play is the title of a techno music album released by the musician Moby in 1999.
- Play is the English title of Asobi, a 1971 Japanese dramatic romance film
- Play is the English title of Spil, a short 1974 Danish telefilm, used in its Irish broadcast
- Play is a 1998 short movie
- Play is a 2000 short dramatic fantasy film
- Play is a 2003 Norwegian dramatic film