playing period

1. 1.

   (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds

   “rain stopped play in the 4th inning”

   Synonymsperiod of playplay

   Broadermeasure

   Narrowerholeset

   Part ofathletic game

   Partschukkerinningturnfirst periodsecond periodfinal period

   game

Questions about playing period

What does playing period mean?

playing period means "(in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds".

What is another word for playing period?

Close synonyms include period of play, play. 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 playing period a common word?

playing period is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.