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Play therapy
Play therapy is a psychotherapy method that uses children's play, with toys and games, to help children aged roughly 3 to 10 express emotions and resolve psychological or behavioral problems.
Play Ventures
Play Ventures is a Singapore-based venture capital firm founded in 2018 by games industry operators Henric Suuronen and Harri Manninen, investing in games, consumer apps, and gaming infrastructure.
Play Your Cards Right
Play Your Cards Right, also Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right, is the ITV British adaptation of Card Sharks: couples answer survey questions, then call higher or lower across rows of cards, running 1980-87 with revivals to 2022.
Play-by-mail game
Play-by-mail game (PBM): multiplayer game played by mailing moves to a moderator, from postal chess and 1963 Diplomacy zines to Rick Loomis's Nuclear Destruction (1970) and Flying Buffalo; peaked in the 1980s, now mostly play-by-email with about 70 active games.
Play-Doh
Play-Doh is Hasbro's non-toxic water, salt, and flour modeling compound, originally Kutol wallpaper cleaner, repurposed as a toy in 1956 via Rainbow Crafts, Kay Zufall's idea, Captain Kangaroo promotion, and the Fun Factory.
Playa
A playa is a dry, vegetation-free flat at the lowest part of an undrained desert basin, underlain by clay, silt, or sand, where ephemeral lakes form during wet periods.
Playa Barranquito
Playa Barranquito, a small surfing beach on the Costa Verde in Barranco district, Lima, Peru; point break with left-hand waves, free entry, 8 m altitude, maintained by the Barranco municipality.
Playa Blanca Punta Hermosa
Playa Blanca is a beach in the district of Punta Hermosa, south of Lima, Peru, named for its fine white sand and known for calm swimming and bodyboarding.
Playa de Rosarito
Playa de Rosarito, a Pacific beach in Playas de Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico (32.35 N, 117.06 W), known for surfing, the URIBE 121 artificial reef, Baja Beach Fest, and seasonally variable water-quality advisories.
Playa del Carmen
Playa del Carmen is a city on Mexico's Caribbean coast in Quintana Roo, at the center of the Riviera Maya and among Latin America's fastest-growing cities.
Playa el Silencio
Playa el Silencio names two beaches: Playa del Silencio (Gavieiru), a 500 m cliff-walled shingle cove in Cudillero, Asturias, Spain, and Playa El Silencio (Jahuay), a large surf beach at km 42-43 of the Panamericana Sur in Punta Hermosa, Lima, Peru, named by 1960s surfers and a War of the Pacific landing site.
Playa Escondida
Playa Escondida, Spanish for hidden beach, names several Latin American places: the tunnel-accessed Hidden Beach in Mexico's Marietas Islands, a 50-hectare resort in Colón, Panama, Argentina's legal nude beach, and a Fajardo, Puerto Rico cove.
Playa Grande
Playa Grande ("Big Beach") is a shared Spanish toponym for several beaches and resorts, chiefly the leatherback-nesting surf beach near Tamarindo, Costa Rica, and the 2 km surf beach at Río San Juan, Dominican Republic.
Playa la Herradura
Playa la Herradura, a horseshoe-shaped beach in Lima's Chorrillos district, Peru, has been a bathing resort since 1908 and a renowned surfing spot since the 1960s.
Playa Los Cocos
Playa Los Cocos is the name of several beaches in Latin America, including the urban beach of Santa Marta, Colombia, and others in Venezuela, Mexico, Cuba, and Costa Rica.
Playa Negra
Playa Negra ("Black Beach") names several American surf beaches: the dark-sand Playa Central of Punta Hermosa, Peru, discovered by surfers in 1981, and a hollow right-hand reef break on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula.
Playa Redondo
Playa Redondo (Redondo Beach), Miraflores, Lima, Peru: urban Costa Verde beach about 1,000 m of grey sand, named after a California surf point, a surfing and bodyboarding venue hosting ISA, national circuit, and triathlon events.
Playback singer
Playback singer, also known as Hindi pārśvagāyak, is a vocalist whose songs are studio-recorded for Indian films. The tradition began in 1935 when actors performed to the pre-recorded tracks.
Playback singer Bhupinder Singh
Bhupinder Singh (1940–2022) was an Indian playback and ghazal singer and guitarist from Amritsar, known for 'Dil Dhoondta Hai' and for recording ghazals with his wife Mitali Singh.
Playback Singer Hema Sardesai
Hema Sardesai is an Indian playback singer, born in Mumbai and raised in Goa, whose 1997 solo 'Awaara Bhanwre' from Sapnay, composed by A. R. Rahman, brought nationwide fame.
Playback singing
Playback singing (प्लेबैक गायन) is the Indian film practice in which trained singers record a film's songs in the studio and actors lip-sync, often dancing, on screen, standard since 1935.
Playbill
Playbill is the American theatre program magazine founded in New York in 1884 by Frank V. Strauss, distributed free at Broadway, Off-Broadway, and classical venues, Birsh-family-owned since 1974, publisher of Playbill.com (1994) and absorber of rival Stagebill (2000); distinct from the unrelated Australian Playbill company founded 1958.
Playboi Carti
Playboi Carti (Jordan Terrell Carter, born 1996, Atlanta) is an American rapper behind the 2017 mixtape, Die Lit, Whole Lotta Red, the 2025 album Music, and the Opium label.
Playboi Carti (mixtape)
Playboi Carti (2017) is the Atlanta rapper's debut commercial mixtape on AWGE/Interscope: 15 tracks, No. 12 on the Billboard 200, Pi'erre Bourne-produced hit "Magnolia," RIAA Platinum.
Playbook (incident response)
An incident response playbook is a documented, predefined set of steps for handling a specific incident, such as ransomware or an outage, so teams respond consistently instead of improvising.
Playboy
Playboy: American men's lifestyle magazine founded by Hugh Hefner in December 1953, mixing Marilyn Monroe's nude debut with fiction and interviews; circulation peaked over 7 million in 1972; print ceased 2020; brand now licensing-focused with Miami Beach headquarters.
Playboy Bunny
Playboy Bunny: waitress at a Playboy Club wearing the trademarked bunny suit (corset leotard, ears, tail, collar, cuffs), debuted in Chicago in 1960; concept by Ilsa Taurins, refined by Hugh Hefner, distinct from the bunny logo.
Playboy Club
Playboy Club: members-only nightclub chain launched in Chicago on February 29, 1960 by Hugh Hefner and Victor Lownes, keyed admission, Bunny waitresses, over 30 clubs at peak, last original club closed 1991.
Playboy Mansion
The Playboy Mansion, also known as Playboy Mansion West, is a Gothic Tudor estate in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, Hugh Hefner's home and party venue from 1971 to 2017.
Playboy Playmate
Playboy Playmate: female model featured as Playmate of the Month in Playboy's centerfold, with Playmate Data Sheet, $25,000 prize, and annual Playmate of the Year; 815 Playmates by December 2021.