play at

Examples (10)

• Let's play at pirates!
• The children often play at being knights in the garden.
• When I was young, we used to play at school.
• She loves to play at being a princess, wearing her mother's old dresses.
• They would play at doctors and nurses with their stuffed animals.
• He's just playing at being a manager; he has no real authority.
• The little boy spent hours playing at being a train conductor.
• My niece likes to play at being a chef in her toy kitchen.
• Even as teenagers, they sometimes play at explorers in the woods.
• We often play at detective, trying to solve imaginary mysteries.