Definition of Playground

Playground

A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.

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Playground Quotations

Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
Sai Baba

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities and talents.
Eric Hoffer

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.
Gwyneth Paltrow

I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
Emo Philips

You watch some teams these days and you wonder if they just met on the playground and decided to choose up sides.
Dennis Rodman

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.
Jay London

Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
Shania Twain

Oh, I think, watching Magic, him being one of my... I'm one of his biggest fans, and just trying to emulate what he did, going out on the playground, and also playing with older guys.
Jason Kidd

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
Maya Lin

Acting is playing - it's actually going out on a playground with the other kids and being in the game, and I need that. Writing satisfies that part of myself that longs to sit in my room and dream.
Billy Bob Thornton

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.
Lisa Marie Presley

Some fine day, Democrats may figure out how to get on the right side of the value divide - how to define America as a place of the common good and not a playground of the strong.
Todd Gitlin

I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
Ed Bradley

I must apologise because I know all writers have memories of being on the outer because it's the children on the side of the playground who become the dangerous writers.
Thomas Keneally

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
Lakhdar Brahimi

For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the Middle Ages did not think of doing. We have given him the world and the universe as a playground for exploration and discovery.
John Grierson

It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
Peter Bart

I never knew what basketball was. I started playing on the playground. People used to laugh at me and joke at me because I was so tall and I didn't know the game and couldn't play it.
Patrick Ewing

As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
Eberhard Weber

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."
Charles Moore

Being an actor on a movie set is like going to the playground at recess.
Melissa Leo

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Playground Translations

playground in Afrikaans is baan
playground in Dutch is speelterrein, speelplaats
playground in German is Spielplatz
playground in Spanish is cancha, patio de recreo
playground in Swedish is lekplats

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