noun:

• activity (esp. energetic); great efforts; conspicuous service

~する noun:

• to flourish; to participate actively; to play an active role

noun:

• mid-January festival in northern Japan, with snow huts in which children play house
• snow hut

noun:

• long-play (record); long-playing; LP ➜ ＳＰ【エスピー】
• linear programming - Mathematics term ➜ 線形計画法
• line printer - IT term ➜ ラインプリンター
• laser printer - IT term ➜ レーザープリンター
• Liberal Party ➜ 自由党

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to be playful (of a child or animal); to play; to sport; to frolic

noun:

• tragedy; tragic drama; tragic play
• tragedy; calamity; disaster

noun:

• grandstand play; grandstanding; showboating; showing off - From English "stand play"

noun:

• bringing one's child to the local park to play for the first time

noun:

• conduct; behaviour
• movements; gesture; one's carriage
• performance (on stage, etc.); dance; acting
• dance (in kabuki); dance play - abbreviation ➜ 所作事

noun:

• end (of play, match, etc.); closing
• closing a pachinko machine (after it has paid out its designated maximum)

noun / expression:

• trick that may deceive a child; transparent ploy; mere child's play; kid stuff; puerile trick

noun:

• low-class kabuki theater; low-class play - four character idiom

noun:

• tale featuring robbers; kabuki play featuring robbers

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to fiddle with; to play with ➜ ひねくり回す【ひねくりまわす】

noun / ~する noun:

• squeeze (play) - Baseball term
• (in scuba diving) discomfort or pain caused by increasing water pressure compressing body air spaces and pushing body tissue inward

noun:

• special seats and standing-only space in the galley for people who only intend to see one act of a kabuki play

noun / ~の noun:

• protecting the skin from becoming rough

noun:

• lotion for rough skin; salve

interjection:

• play ball!

noun:

• starting a match (of baseball, tennis, etc.)

noun / ~する noun:

• difficult voyage; hard flight
• rough going; rough passage; running into trouble; stormy passage

godan ~む verb / transitive:

• to scheme; to plan; to play a trick; to invent; to conspire; to frame up

~する verb (spec.) / intransitive verb:

• to dress up as; to disguise oneself as; to play the role of

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to feign ignorance; to pretend to be ignorant of; to play innocent; to brazen it out

noun:

• rough-legged buzzard (Buteo lagopus); rough-legged hawk

godan ~す verb:

• to make someone eat; to deal (a blow); to play (a trick)

ichidan verb / transitive:

• to make someone eat ➜ 食らわす
• to deal (a blow); to play (a trick)

noun:

• study (for a role); preparation for a part (in a play, etc.)