playing

Summary

playing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (282 views/month).^[1]

Key Facts

• playing is a type of recreation^[2].
• playing is a type of activity^[3].
• playing is part of psychological terminology^[4].
• playing is part of sociology^[5].
• playing is part of pediatrics^[6].
• playing's Commons category is recorded as Play^[7].
• playing's has cause is recorded as play drive^[8].
• playing's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Play (activity)^[9].
• playing's facet of is recorded as pediatrics^[10].
• playing's facet of is recorded as psychology^[11].
• playing's facet of is recorded as learning^[12].
• playing's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic^[13].
• playing's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary^[14].
• playing's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge^[15].
• playing's different from is recorded as game^[16].
• playing's permanent duplicated item is recorded as Q22828744^[17].
• playing's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4^[18].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include recreation^[2] and activity^[3].

Use and Application

Part of include psychological terminology^[4]; sociology^[5], an academic discipline^[19]; and pediatrics^[6], a medical specialty^[20].

Influence

Things named for playing include GNS Theory^[21], a role-playing game theory^[22], written by Ron Edwards^[23].

Why It Matters

playing ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (282 views/month).^[1] playing has Wikipedia articles in 23 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[24] playing is known by 32 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[25]

Entities named for playing include GNS Theory^[21], a role-playing game theory^[22], written by Ron Edwards^[23].