playing (n.)
- acting
- aping
- bickering
- blinking
- buffoonery
- business
- characterization
- coquetry
- dalliance
- dancing
- embodiment
- enactment
- flashing
- flirtation
- fluttering
- fooling
- gag
- gambling
- gaming
- ham
- hoke
- hokum
- idling
- imitation
- impersonation
- incarnation
- masquerade
- mimesis
- mimicry
- mummery
- overacting
- pantomime
- patter
- performance
- performing
- personation
- personification
- play
- playacting
- portrayal
- posing
- projection
- puttering
- quivering
- representation
- risking
- slapstick
- smattering
- sortition
- speculation
- staking
- stunt
- toying
- trifling
- wavering
playing (adj.)
If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
