Child's Play

Definition: Child's Play

Child's Play

Noun

1. Any activity that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic".

2. Play by children that is guided more by imagination than by fixed rules; "Freud believed in the utility of play to a small child".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Child's Play

Facility

Plain sailing, smooth sailing, straight sailing; mere child's play, holiday task; cinch.

Unimportance

Nothing, nothing to signify, nothing worth speaking of, nothing particular, nothing to boast of, nothing to speak of; small matter, no great matter, trifling matter; Adjective:; mere joke, mere nothing; hardly anything; scarcely anything; nonentity, small beer, cipher; no great shakes, peu de chose; child's play, kinderspiel.

Crosswords: Child's Play

Child's Play (1972)

Dalziel and Pascoe: Child's Play (1998)

Child's Play 3 (1991)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Child's Play Featuring Ann Estelle: A Paper Doll Book (reference)

• The Baby Games: The Joyful Guide to Child's Play from Birth to Three Years (reference)

• Daredevil Punisher: Child's Play (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Child's Play 2 (reference)

• Child's Play 3: Look Who's Stalking (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "child's play": it's child's play. Additional references.

Albanian

punë fort e lehtë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏لعب الأطفال, ‏طفولة (babyhood, girlhood, infancy). (various references)

Bulgarian 

играчка (knack, plaything, tool, toy, whim-wham). (various references)

Czech

hraèka (affair, knick knack, picnic, plaything, pushover, toy, walkover). (various references)

Finnish

leikinteko, lapsenleikki. (various references)

French

jeu pour l'enfant, ???. (various references)

German

spaziergang (doddle, perambulator, promenade, stroll, walk, walkover, wander), kinderspiel (breezeUS, children's game, cinch, piece of cake, walkover). (various references)

Greek 

κάτι πολύ εύκολο (a piece of cake), παιχνιδάκι (plain sailing, smooth sailing, toy). (various references)

Hungarian

gyerekjáték (as easy as pie, breeze, cake-walk, pushover). (various references)

Italian

scherzo (banter, frolic, frolics, gag, game, hoaw, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, quiz, rag, trick, trifle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

子供騙し (childish trick, kid stuff, mere child's play), 児戯 (mere child's play). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

�"ども� まし (childish trick, kid stuff, mere child's play), じぎ (declining, fitting thing, greeting, mere child's play, refusing, season's greetings, the meaning or sense of a word, the right time). (various references)

Manx

staartey bog. (various references)

Pig Latin

ild'schay ayplay

Portuguese

algo fácil. (various references)

Romanian

jucãrie (bauble, gewgaw, plaything, sport, tool, toy, trifle). (various references)

Russian 

легкая задача (child's-play, walkover). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

laka stvar. (various references)

Spanish

juego de niños. (various references)

Swedish

barnlek (children's game, pushover). (various references)

Turkish

kolay iş (easy job, mickey mouse, set up, shade, simple job, sitter, snap, snip), çocuk oyuncağı (as easy as pie, breeze, cinch, it's pie, jam, picnic, pushover, toy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

việc dễ l� m (picnic). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: ladyship, physical, placidly.

-4 letters: alphyls, apishly, caliphs, challis, childly, clayish, display, ladyish, phallic, psyllid, shadily, sylphic, sylphid.

-5 letters: acidly, alcids, alphyl, aphids, caliph, capsid, chally, chills, chilly, halids, idylls, lacily, laichs, lilacs, palish, pallid, phalli, phasic, phials, phylic, physic, placid, plaids, plashy, plical, psylla, salpid, scilla, scyphi.