child's play

Questions about child's play

What does child's play mean?

child's play means "any undertaking that is easy to do". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for child's play?

Close synonyms include cinch, breeze, picnic, snap, duck soup. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is child's play a common word?

child's play is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.