at play

1. Actively playing or involved in other leisure activities. The kids love the game you bought them—they've been at play for hours now. What do you like to do when you're at play?

2. Active or existing as something to be considered. It's a complicated matter with several important issues at play.

at play

[at this moment] involved in playing. (See also at work.) The children are at play, and I am doing household chores. Whether I am at work or at play, I try to be pleasant to people.

词组	at play
释义	at play at play 1. Actively playing or involved in other leisure activities. The kids love the game you bought them—they've been at play for hours now. What do you like to do when you're at play? 2. Active or existing as something to be considered. It's a complicated matter with several important issues at play. See also: play Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. at play [at this moment] involved in playing. (See also at work.) The children are at play, and I am doing household chores. Whether I am at work or at play, I try to be pleasant to people. See also: play McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: in the game in the swim in the swim of things in(to) the swim (of things) be in the swim (of things) at (one's) leisure at leisure enter into the spirit enter into the spirit (of something) get/enter into the spirit of something
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