THESAURUS
playing
acting, aflicker, aping, betting, bickering, blinking, buffoonery, business, cardsharping, casting lots, characterization, coquetry, dabbling, dalliance, dallying, dancing, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, fiddling, flashing, flickering, flickery, flicky, flirtation, fluttering, fluttery, fooling, fooling around, gag, gambling, gaming, ham, hammy acting, hazarding, hoke, hokum, idling, imitation, impersonation, incarnation, jerking off, kidding around, lambent, loitering, masquerade, messing around, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, monkeying, monkeying around, mummery, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, piddling, play, playacting,
playing around, portrayal, posing, pottering, projection, puttering, quivering, quivery, representation, risking, slapstick, smattering, sortition, speculation, sporting, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, staking, stroboscopic, stunt, taking a role, tinkering, toying, trifling, wagering, wavering, wavery
ROGET THESAURUS
playing
Musician
N
musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel, bard, accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist, harper, fiddler, fifer, trumpeter, piper, drummer, catgut scraper, band, orchestral waits, vocalist, melodist, singer, warbler, songster, chaunter, chauntress, songstress, cantatrice, choir, quire, chorister, chorus, chorus singer, liedertafel, nightingale, philomel, thrush, siren, bulbul, mavis, Pierides, sacred nine, Orpheus, Apollo, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore, tuneful nine, tuneful quire, composer, performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization,
playing, musical, adagio, andante.