Definition of Playmaking

1. Noun. (sports) The initiation of offensive play with the intent of scoring a goal (or the equivalent) ¹

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Definition of Playmaking

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Playmaking

playleaders
playless
playlet
playlets
playlike
playline
playlist
playlisted
playlisting
playlistism
playlists
playlot
playlots
playmaker
playmakers
playmaking (current term)
playmakings
playmat
playmate
playmates
playmats
playnt
playnts
playock
playoff
playoff beard
playoff beards
playoff game
playoffs
playout

Literary usage of Playmaking

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Play Way: An Essay in Educational Method by Henry Caldwell Cook (1917)
"But in playmaking the plot and the poetry and the acting have all to be fashioned by the boys themselves. It is therefore necessary for the master to set ..."

2. One-act Plays by Modern Authors by Helen Louise Cohen (1921)
"playmaking Shortly before the death of William Dean Howells, he related the experience that he had had of being circularized by. a correspondence school ..."

3. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... aspirant to the mantle Professor Matthews' latest book is called 'The Principles of playmaking,' of Shakespeare or Fitch hopes to learn PLAYWRIGHTS AND ..."

4. Drama and Life by Arthur Bingham Walkley (1908)
"PROCESSES OF THOUGHT IN playmaking TN reviewing the Life of George Eliot at the time of -L publication, Mr. John Morley recalled a discussion in which the ..."

5. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"The Principles of playmaking (New York, 1919). ... Series I and III on playmaking. Montague, С. Е., Dramatic Values. London, 1911. ..."

6. The Play Way: An Essay in Educational Method by Henry Caldwell Cook (1917)
"But in playmaking the plot and the poetry and the acting have all to be fashioned by the boys themselves. It is therefore necessary for the master to set ..."

7. One-act Plays by Modern Authors by Helen Louise Cohen (1921)
"playmaking Shortly before the death of William Dean Howells, he related the experience that he had had of being circularized by. a correspondence school ..."

8. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... aspirant to the mantle Professor Matthews' latest book is called 'The Principles of playmaking,' of Shakespeare or Fitch hopes to learn PLAYWRIGHTS AND ..."

9. Drama and Life by Arthur Bingham Walkley (1908)
"PROCESSES OF THOUGHT IN playmaking TN reviewing the Life of George Eliot at the time of -L publication, Mr. John Morley recalled a discussion in which the ..."

10. Chief Contemporary Dramatists, Second Series: Eighteen Plays from the Recent by Thomas Herbert Dickinson (1921)
"The Principles of playmaking (New York, 1919). ... Series I and III on playmaking. Montague, С. Е., Dramatic Values. London, 1911. ..."

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