Logo
Unionpedia
Communication
Get it on Google Play
New! Download Unionpedia on your Android™ device!
Free
Faster access than browser!
 

Play (activity)

Index Play (activity)

In psychology and ethology, play is a range of voluntary, intrinsically motivated activities normally associated with recreational pleasure and enjoyment. [1]

138 relations: Absenteeism, Academy, Adolescence, Affective neuroscience, Africa, Agility, American football, Asia, Assam macaque, Association football, Athlete, Australia, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, Bear, Bingo (U.S.), Blood lipids, Board game, Breast cancer, Business, Card game, Cardiovascular disease, Carl Jung, Cerebellum, Child, Child development, Childhood, Children's museum, Cholesterol, Cognitive development, Competition, Contentment, Convention on the Rights of the Child, Creativity, Cyberspace, Deer, Diabetes mellitus, Discovery (observation), Dog, Dominoes, Draughts, Emotion, Endurance, Equifinality, Ethology, Europe, Eye–hand coordination, Failure, Family entertainment center, ..., FIFA World Cup, Flow (psychology), Football, Free will, G. Stanley Hall, Game, Gameplay, Goal, Happiness, Homo Ludens, Ice hockey, Ilinx, Interpersonal relationship, Jean Piaget, Johan Huizinga, Jumping, Kick, Learned optimism, Learning, Learning through play, Leisure, Lev Vygotsky, Lion, Mammal, Man, Play and Games, Melanie Klein, Morale, Motor coordination, Mud pie, Muscle, Nepal, Neuroscience, New Deal, Nonprofit organization, Norbert Elias, North America, Obesity, Olympic Games, Phylogenetics, Physical fitness, Physical strength, Play therapy, Playground, Polar bear, Positive affectivity, Predation, Pregnancy, Problem solving, Productivity, Psychology, Quality of life, Recreation, Roger Caillois, Running, Scholarpedia, Science museum, Sigmund Freud, Smoking, Social isolation, Socialization, South America, Speed, Sport, Stephen Nachmanovitch, Stiffness, Summer camp, Table football, Table tennis, TED (conference), Television, Terror management theory, Theatrical property, Throwing, Tonkean macaque, Tool, Toy, United Nations, University of Colorado, University of Idaho, University of Lethbridge, Victory, Video game, Welfare, William James, Works Progress Administration, Yoga, Youth, Zebra. Expand index (88 more) »

Absenteeism

Absenteeism is a habitual pattern of absence from a duty or obligation without good reason.

New!!: Play (activity) and Absenteeism · See more »

Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

New!!: Play (activity) and Academy · See more »

Adolescence

AdolescenceMacmillan Dictionary for Students Macmillan, Pan Ltd.

New!!: Play (activity) and Adolescence · See more »

Affective neuroscience

Affective neuroscience is the study of the neural mechanisms of emotion.

New!!: Play (activity) and Affective neuroscience · See more »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

New!!: Play (activity) and Africa · See more »

Agility

Agility or nimbleness is the ability to change the body's position efficiently, and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, and endurance.

New!!: Play (activity) and Agility · See more »

American football

American football, referred to as football in the United States and Canada and also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end.

New!!: Play (activity) and American football · See more »

Asia

Asia is Earth's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the Eastern and Northern Hemispheres.

New!!: Play (activity) and Asia · See more »

Assam macaque

The Assam macaque (Macaca assamensis) is a macaque of the Old World monkey family native to South and Southeast Asia.

New!!: Play (activity) and Assam macaque · See more »

Association football

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball.

New!!: Play (activity) and Association football · See more »

Athlete

An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed or endurance.

New!!: Play (activity) and Athlete · See more »

Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

New!!: Play (activity) and Australia · See more »

Badminton

Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.

New!!: Play (activity) and Badminton · See more »

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.

New!!: Play (activity) and Baseball · See more »

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport played on a rectangular court.

New!!: Play (activity) and Basketball · See more »

Bear

Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae.

New!!: Play (activity) and Bear · See more »

Bingo (U.S.)

In the United States, Bingo is a game of chance in which each player matches numbers printed in different arrangements on 5×5 cards with the numbers the game host (caller) draws at random, marking the selected numbers with tiles.

New!!: Play (activity) and Bingo (U.S.) · See more »

Blood lipids

Blood lipids (or blood fats) are lipids in the blood, either free or bound to other molecules.

New!!: Play (activity) and Blood lipids · See more »

Board game

A board game is a tabletop game that involves counters or moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules.

New!!: Play (activity) and Board game · See more »

Breast cancer

Breast cancer is cancer that develops from breast tissue.

New!!: Play (activity) and Breast cancer · See more »

Business

Business is the activity of making one's living or making money by producing or buying and selling products (goods and services).

New!!: Play (activity) and Business · See more »

Card game

A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific.

New!!: Play (activity) and Card game · See more »

Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.

New!!: Play (activity) and Cardiovascular disease · See more »

Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

New!!: Play (activity) and Carl Jung · See more »

Cerebellum

The cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") is a major feature of the hindbrain of all vertebrates.

New!!: Play (activity) and Cerebellum · See more »

Child

Biologically, a child (plural: children) is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty.

New!!: Play (activity) and Child · See more »

Child development

Child development entails the biological, psychological and emotional changes that occur in human beings between birth and the end of adolescence, as the individual progresses from dependency to increasing autonomy.

New!!: Play (activity) and Child development · See more »

Childhood

Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence.

New!!: Play (activity) and Childhood · See more »

Children's museum

Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs to stimulate informal learning experiences for children.

New!!: Play (activity) and Children's museum · See more »

Cholesterol

Cholesterol (from the Ancient Greek chole- (bile) and stereos (solid), followed by the chemical suffix -ol for an alcohol) is an organic molecule.

New!!: Play (activity) and Cholesterol · See more »

Cognitive development

Cognitive development is a field of study in neuroscience and psychology focusing on a child's development in terms of information processing, conceptual resources, perceptual skill, language learning, and other aspects of the developed adult brain and cognitive psychology.

New!!: Play (activity) and Cognitive development · See more »

Competition

Competition is, in general, a contest or rivalry between two or more entities, organisms, animals, individuals, economic groups or social groups, etc., for territory, a niche, for scarce resources, goods, for mates, for prestige, recognition, for awards, for group or social status, or for leadership and profit.

New!!: Play (activity) and Competition · See more »

Contentment

Contentment is a mental or emotional state of satisfaction maybe drawn from being at ease in one's situation, body and mind.

New!!: Play (activity) and Contentment · See more »

Convention on the Rights of the Child

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (commonly abbreviated as the CRC or UNCRC) is a human rights treaty which sets out the civil, political, economic, social, health and cultural rights of children.

New!!: Play (activity) and Convention on the Rights of the Child · See more »

Creativity

Creativity is a phenomenon whereby something new and somehow valuable is formed.

New!!: Play (activity) and Creativity · See more »

Cyberspace

Cyberspace is interconnected technology.

New!!: Play (activity) and Cyberspace · See more »

Deer

Deer (singular and plural) are the ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae.

New!!: Play (activity) and Deer · See more »

Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.

New!!: Play (activity) and Diabetes mellitus · See more »

Discovery (observation)

Discovery is the act of detecting something new, or something "old" that had been unrecognized as meaningful.

New!!: Play (activity) and Discovery (observation) · See more »

Dog

The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris when considered a subspecies of the gray wolf or Canis familiaris when considered a distinct species) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore.

New!!: Play (activity) and Dog · See more »

Dominoes

Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with rectangular "domino" tiles.

New!!: Play (activity) and Dominoes · See more »

Draughts

Draughts (British English) or checkers (American English) is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces.

New!!: Play (activity) and Draughts · See more »

Emotion

Emotion is any conscious experience characterized by intense mental activity and a certain degree of pleasure or displeasure.

New!!: Play (activity) and Emotion · See more »

Endurance

Endurance (also related to sufferance, resilience, constitution, fortitude, and hardiness) is the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from, and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue.

New!!: Play (activity) and Endurance · See more »

Equifinality

Equifinality is the principle that in open systems a given end state can be reached by many potential means.

New!!: Play (activity) and Equifinality · See more »

Ethology

Ethology is the scientific and objective study of animal behaviour, usually with a focus on behaviour under natural conditions, and viewing behaviour as an evolutionarily adaptive trait.

New!!: Play (activity) and Ethology · See more »

Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

New!!: Play (activity) and Europe · See more »

Eye–hand coordination

Eye–hand coordination (also known as hand–eye coordination) is the coordinated control of eye movement with hand movement, and the processing of visual input to guide reaching and grasping along with the use of proprioception of the hands to guide the eyes.

New!!: Play (activity) and Eye–hand coordination · See more »

Failure

Failure is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success.

New!!: Play (activity) and Failure · See more »

Family entertainment center

A family entertainment center (or centre), often abbreviated FEC in the entertainment industry, (also known as indoor amusement park or indoor theme park) is a small amusement park marketed towards families with small children to teenagers, and often entirely indoors or associated with a larger operation such as a theme park.

New!!: Play (activity) and Family entertainment center · See more »

FIFA World Cup

The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's global governing body.

New!!: Play (activity) and FIFA World Cup · See more »

Flow (psychology)

In positive psychology, flow, also known colloquially as being in the zone, is the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.

New!!: Play (activity) and Flow (psychology) · See more »

Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with a foot to score a goal.

New!!: Play (activity) and Football · See more »

Free will

Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.

New!!: Play (activity) and Free will · See more »

G. Stanley Hall

Granville Stanley Hall (February 1, 1846 – April 24, 1924) was a pioneering American psychologist and educator.

New!!: Play (activity) and G. Stanley Hall · See more »

Game

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool.

New!!: Play (activity) and Game · See more »

Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.

New!!: Play (activity) and Gameplay · See more »

Goal

A goal is an idea of the future or desired result that a person or a group of people envisions, plans and commits to achieve.

New!!: Play (activity) and Goal · See more »

Happiness

In psychology, happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being which can be defined by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

New!!: Play (activity) and Happiness · See more »

Homo Ludens

Homo Ludens is a book written in 1938 by Dutch historian and cultural theorist Johan Huizinga.

New!!: Play (activity) and Homo Ludens · See more »

Ice hockey

Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points.

New!!: Play (activity) and Ice hockey · See more »

Ilinx

Ilinx is a kind of play, described by sociologist Roger Caillois, a major figure in game studies.

New!!: Play (activity) and Ilinx · See more »

Interpersonal relationship

An interpersonal relationship is a strong, deep, or close association or acquaintance between two or more people that may range in duration from brief to enduring.

New!!: Play (activity) and Interpersonal relationship · See more »

Jean Piaget

Jean Piaget (9 August 1896 – 16 September 1980) was a Swiss psychologist and epistemologist known for his pioneering work in child development.

New!!: Play (activity) and Jean Piaget · See more »

Johan Huizinga

Johan Huizinga (7 December 1872 – 1 February 1945) was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.

New!!: Play (activity) and Johan Huizinga · See more »

Jumping

Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living (e.g., robotic) mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory.

New!!: Play (activity) and Jumping · See more »

Kick

A kick is a physical strike using the leg, foot, heel, tibia, thigh or knee (the latter is also known as a knee strike).

New!!: Play (activity) and Kick · See more »

Learned optimism

Learned optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated.

New!!: Play (activity) and Learned optimism · See more »

Learning

Learning is the process of acquiring new or modifying existing knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, or preferences.

New!!: Play (activity) and Learning · See more »

Learning through play

Learning through play is a term used in education and psychology to describe how a child can learn to make sense of the world around them.

New!!: Play (activity) and Learning through play · See more »

Leisure

Leisure has often been defined as a quality of experience or as free time. Free time is time spent away from business, work, job hunting, domestic chores, and education, as well as necessary activities such as eating and sleeping.

New!!: Play (activity) and Leisure · See more »

Lev Vygotsky

Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (p; – June 11, 1934) was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of an unfinished theory of human cultural and bio-social development commonly referred to as cultural-historical psychology, a prominent advocate for a new theory of consciousness, the "psychology of superman", and leader of the Vygotsky Circle (also referred to as "Vygotsky-Luria Circle").

New!!: Play (activity) and Lev Vygotsky · See more »

Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a species in the cat family (Felidae).

New!!: Play (activity) and Lion · See more »

Mammal

Mammals are the vertebrates within the class Mammalia (from Latin mamma "breast"), a clade of endothermic amniotes distinguished from reptiles (including birds) by the possession of a neocortex (a region of the brain), hair, three middle ear bones, and mammary glands.

New!!: Play (activity) and Mammal · See more »

Man, Play and Games

Man, Play and Games is the influential 1961 book by the French Sociologist Roger Caillois, (French Les jeux et les hommes, 1958) on the sociology of play and games or, in Caillois' terms, sociology derived from play.

New!!: Play (activity) and Man, Play and Games · See more »

Melanie Klein

Melanie Reizes Klein (30 March 1882 – 22 September 1960) was an Austrian-British psychoanalyst who devised novel therapeutic techniques for children that influenced child psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis.

New!!: Play (activity) and Melanie Klein · See more »

Morale

Morale, also known as esprit de corps, is the capacity of a group's members to maintain belief in an institution or goal, particularly in the face of opposition or hardship.

New!!: Play (activity) and Morale · See more »

Motor coordination

Motor coordination is the combination of body movements created with the kinematic (such as spatial direction) and kinetic (force) parameters that result in intended actions.

New!!: Play (activity) and Motor coordination · See more »

Mud pie

Making a mud pie is a children's activity or game that consists of creating a mixture of water and soil and playing or pretending to make food or a pie.

New!!: Play (activity) and Mud pie · See more »

Muscle

Muscle is a soft tissue found in most animals.

New!!: Play (activity) and Muscle · See more »

Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

New!!: Play (activity) and Nepal · See more »

Neuroscience

Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.

New!!: Play (activity) and Neuroscience · See more »

New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.

New!!: Play (activity) and New Deal · See more »

Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

New!!: Play (activity) and Nonprofit organization · See more »

Norbert Elias

Norbert Elias (22 June 1897 – 1 August 1990) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent, who later became a British citizen.

New!!: Play (activity) and Norbert Elias · See more »

North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere; it is also considered by some to be a northern subcontinent of the Americas.

New!!: Play (activity) and North America · See more »

Obesity

Obesity is a medical condition in which excess body fat has accumulated to the extent that it may have a negative effect on health.

New!!: Play (activity) and Obesity · See more »

Olympic Games

The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (Jeux olympiques) are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions.

New!!: Play (activity) and Olympic Games · See more »

Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics (Greek: φυλή, φῦλον – phylé, phylon.

New!!: Play (activity) and Phylogenetics · See more »

Physical fitness

Physical fitness is a state of health and well-being and, more specifically, the ability to perform aspects of sports, occupations and daily activities.

New!!: Play (activity) and Physical fitness · See more »

Physical strength

Physical strength is the measure of an animal's exertion of force on physical objects.

New!!: Play (activity) and Physical strength · See more »

Play therapy

Play therapy is a method of meeting and responding to the mental health needs of children and is extensively acknowledged by experts as an effective and suitable intervention in dealing with children’s brain development.

New!!: Play (activity) and Play therapy · See more »

Playground

A playground, playpark, or play area is a place specifically designed to enable children to play there.

New!!: Play (activity) and Playground · See more »

Polar bear

The polar bear (Ursus maritimus) is a hypercarnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.

New!!: Play (activity) and Polar bear · See more »

Positive affectivity

Positive affectivity (PA) is a human characteristic that describes how much people experience positive affects (sensations, emotions, sentiments...); and as a consequence how they interact with others and with their surroundings.

New!!: Play (activity) and Positive affectivity · See more »

Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where a predator (a hunting animal) kills and eats its prey (the organism that is attacked).

New!!: Play (activity) and Predation · See more »

Pregnancy

Pregnancy, also known as gestation, is the time during which one or more offspring develops inside a woman.

New!!: Play (activity) and Pregnancy · See more »

Problem solving

Problem solving consists of using generic or ad hoc methods, in an orderly manner, to find solutions to problems.

New!!: Play (activity) and Problem solving · See more »

Productivity

Productivity describes various measures of the efficiency of production.

New!!: Play (activity) and Productivity · See more »

Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

New!!: Play (activity) and Psychology · See more »

Quality of life

Quality of life (QOL) is the general well-being of individuals and societies, outlining negative and positive features of life.

New!!: Play (activity) and Quality of life · See more »

Recreation

Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.

New!!: Play (activity) and Recreation · See more »

Roger Caillois

Roger Caillois (3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual whose idiosyncratic work brought together literary criticism, sociology, and philosophy by focusing on diverse subjects such as games, play as well as the sacred.

New!!: Play (activity) and Roger Caillois · See more »

Running

Running is a method of terrestrial locomotion allowing humans and other animals to move rapidly on foot.

New!!: Play (activity) and Running · See more »

Scholarpedia

Scholarpedia is an English-language online wiki-based encyclopedia with features commonly associated with open-access online academic journals, which aims to have quality content.

New!!: Play (activity) and Scholarpedia · See more »

Science museum

A science museum is a museum devoted primarily to science.

New!!: Play (activity) and Science museum · See more »

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

New!!: Play (activity) and Sigmund Freud · See more »

Smoking

Smoking is a practice in which a substance is burned and the resulting smoke breathed in to be tasted and absorbed into the bloodstream.

New!!: Play (activity) and Smoking · See more »

Social isolation

Social isolation is a state of complete or near-complete lack of contact between an individual and society.

New!!: Play (activity) and Social isolation · See more »

Socialization

In sociology, socialization is the process of internalizing the norms and ideologies of society.

New!!: Play (activity) and Socialization · See more »

South America

South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.

New!!: Play (activity) and South America · See more »

Speed

In everyday use and in kinematics, the speed of an object is the magnitude of its velocity (the rate of change of its position); it is thus a scalar quantity.

New!!: Play (activity) and Speed · See more »

Sport

Sport (British English) or sports (American English) includes all forms of competitive physical activity or games which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants, and in some cases, entertainment for spectators.

New!!: Play (activity) and Sport · See more »

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Stephen Nachmanovitch is a musician, author, computer artist, and educator.

New!!: Play (activity) and Stephen Nachmanovitch · See more »

Stiffness

Stiffness is the rigidity of an object — the extent to which it resists deformation in response to an applied force.

New!!: Play (activity) and Stiffness · See more »

Summer camp

A summer camp or sleepaway camp is a supervised program for children or teenagers conducted during the summer months in some countries.

New!!: Play (activity) and Summer camp · See more »

Table football

Table football, also called foosball (compare with the German Fußball "football") and sometimes table soccer, is a table-top game that is loosely based on football.

New!!: Play (activity) and Table football · See more »

Table tennis

Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small bats.

New!!: Play (activity) and Table tennis · See more »

TED (conference)

TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is a media organization that posts talks online for free distribution, under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".

New!!: Play (activity) and TED (conference) · See more »

Television

Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

New!!: Play (activity) and Television · See more »

Terror management theory

In social psychology, terror management theory (TMT) proposes a basic psychological conflict that results from having a self-preservation instinct, whilst realizing that death is inevitable and to some extent unpredictable.

New!!: Play (activity) and Terror management theory · See more »

Theatrical property

A prop, formally known as (theatrical) property, is an object used on stage or on screen by actors during a performance or screen production.

New!!: Play (activity) and Theatrical property · See more »

Throwing

Throwing is the launching of a ballistic projectile by hand.

New!!: Play (activity) and Throwing · See more »

Tonkean macaque

The Tonkean black macaque or Tonkean macaque (Macaca tonkeana) is a species of primate in the family Cercopithecidae.

New!!: Play (activity) and Tonkean macaque · See more »

Tool

A tool is any physical item that can be used to achieve a goal, especially if the item is not consumed in the process.

New!!: Play (activity) and Tool · See more »

Toy

A toy is an item that is used in play, especially one designed for such use.

New!!: Play (activity) and Toy · See more »

United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization tasked to promote international cooperation and to create and maintain international order.

New!!: Play (activity) and United Nations · See more »

University of Colorado

The University of Colorado system is a system of public universities in Colorado consisting of four campuses: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, University of Colorado Denver in downtown Denver and at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

New!!: Play (activity) and University of Colorado · See more »

University of Idaho

The University of Idaho (officially abbreviated UI, locally referred to as "U of I" or "UIdaho") is the U.S. state of Idaho's oldest public university.

New!!: Play (activity) and University of Idaho · See more »

University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge (also known as uLethbridge, uLeth, and U of L) is a publicly funded comprehensive academic and research university, founded in the liberal education tradition, located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, with a second campus in the city of Calgary, Alberta.

New!!: Play (activity) and University of Lethbridge · See more »

Victory

The term victory (from Latin victoria) originally applied to warfare, and denotes success achieved in personal combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition.

New!!: Play (activity) and Victory · See more »

Video game

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

New!!: Play (activity) and Video game · See more »

Welfare

Welfare is a government support for the citizens and residents of society.

New!!: Play (activity) and Welfare · See more »

William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

New!!: Play (activity) and William James · See more »

Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

New!!: Play (activity) and Works Progress Administration · See more »

Yoga

Yoga (Sanskrit, योगः) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India.

New!!: Play (activity) and Yoga · See more »

Youth

Youth is the time of life when one is young, and often means the time between childhood and adulthood (maturity).

New!!: Play (activity) and Youth · See more »

Zebra

Zebras are several species of African equids (horse family) united by their distinctive black and white striped coats.

New!!: Play (activity) and Zebra · See more »

Redirects here:

Animal play, Children's play, Play (animal behavior), Play (animal behaviour), Play (animals), Play (behavior), Play (ethology), Play behaviour, Playful, Playfulness, Playing.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_(activity)

OutgoingIncoming
Hey! We are on Facebook now! »