PLAYING PERIOD
Dictionary entry overview: What does playing period mean?
• PLAYING PERIOD (noun)
The noun PLAYING PERIOD has 1 sense:
1. (in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
Familiarity information: PLAYING PERIOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PLAYING PERIOD (noun)
Meaning:
(in games or plays or other performances) the time during which play proceeds
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
period of play; playing period; play
Context example:
rain stopped play in the 4th inning
Hypernyms ("playing period" is a kind of...):
amount; measure; quantity (how much there is of something that you can quantify)
Domain category:
game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "playing period"):
over ((cricket) the period during which a given number of balls (6 in England but 8 in Australia) are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch)
quarter (one of four periods of play into which some games are divided)
period (one of three periods of play in hockey games)
half (in various games or performances: either of two periods of play separated by an interval)
final period (the last period of play in a game)
third period (the third period of play in a game)
second period (the second period of play in a game)
first period (the first period of play in a game)
bout; round; turn ((sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive)
set (a unit of play in tennis or squash)
frame; inning (a period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat)
chukka; chukker (one of six playing periods into which a polo match is divided)
golf hole; hole (one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course)
Holonyms ("playing period" is a part of...):
athletic game (a game involving athletic activity)
