ADJ
- outdoor
- creative, imaginative, pretend
PLAY + NOUN
- area
- equipment
- scheme
- The local council runs some good play schemes
PREP
- at ~
- Children spend hours at play
- in ~
- I only said it in play (= not seriously)
ADJ
- one-act
- radio, television
- musical
- miracle, morality, mystery, nativity, passion
- The children always perform a nativity play every Christmas
VERB + PLAY
- review
- The play is reviewed in most of today's papers
PREP
- ~ about
- a play about teenage runaways
ADJ
- excellent, good
- fair
- dangerous, dirty, foul, rough, violent
- He was sent off for foul play
VERB + PLAY
- stop
- Rain stopped play 40 minutes into the match
PREP
- in ~
- The ball is still in play
- out of ~
- He kicked the ball out of play
PHRASES
- at close/start of play (in cricket)
- At close of play he had scored 38 not out
VERB + PLAY
- let sb
- The other children wouldn't let him play
PREP
- at
- Let's play at pirates!
- with
- a little girl playing with her toys
ADV
- brilliantly, excellently, superbly, well
- badly
VERB + PLAY
- learn to
- teach sb to
- be difficult to, be easy to
- see sb, watch sb
PREP
- against
- United are difficult to play against
- at
- I've never played John at tennis
- for
- He plays for Aston Villa
- in
- She has played in every match this season
- with
- playing cards with her mother
ADV
- brilliantly, excellently, superbly, well
- badly
- live
- The band will be playing live in the studio
VERB + PLAY
- learn to
- learning to play the violin
- teach sb to
- be easy to, be difficult to
- a piece that is relatively easy to play
- hear sb
- Have you ever heard her play?