playtime
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Painted characters and toyboxes made of wood are installed in scenes that replicate toy stores and home interiors, where figurines scattered on the floor suggest that we’ve just interrupted a child’s playtime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Soto also argues that the students most likely to have recess taken away are the ones who tend to benefit from playtime the most.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
“Toy Story,” at the very least, saw this same everyday world through a new lens, asking children to wonder what it would be like if their toys had entirely separate lives outside of playtime.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
She'll wake me up in the morning to play before she goes to school and, as soon as I pick her up from school, it's playtime.
From BBC ● Mar. 23, 2026
There was exercise, there was sewing, there was supper, there was playtime in the lounge: a big shabby room with board games and a few tattered books and a table-tennis table.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
PLN’s programs span generations and include toddler parent-child playtimes, summer academic and cultural enrichment for children through ninth grade, parent leadership training and teen services that range from career exploration to game nights.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
He is wearing out his beloved Chihuahua, Gracie, with extended playtimes.
From New York Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
The BFI venue benefited from multiple playtimes each day, as opposed to just 38 showings over 28 days for Secret Cinema, although premium prices for the latter, reflecting the ambitious production values, boosted its takings.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 3, 2012
Beyond these playtimes she saw the "things I could do for Erik"—and she admitted that Erik did partly make up the image of her altogether perfect artist.
From Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
Later, together, they explored the world of music, literature, science, and art, spending the long summer playtimes, still together, traveling in both well-known and little-known lands.
From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
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