(games) Describing a game that can be played in a turn-based fashion through postal mail or email.

(games) A play-by-mail game.

An urban park containing swings, slides, roundabouts and similar things for children to play on

To behave fairly; to abide by the rules.

(idiomatic, UK, slang, dated) To play truant (be absent from school without permission).

Synonym of game the system

to do what is expected.

simple past tense and past participle of play up

present participle of play up

(intransitive, idiomatic, derogatory) to act or say something according to political ambition, self-interest, and gamesmanship instead of moral conviction and altruism; to politick