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Playground Ventures
Playground Ventures, also known as Playground Global, is a Palo Alto venture capital firm founded in 2015 that invests in early-stage deep tech and science companies.
Playhouse Disney
Playhouse Disney was Disney's preschool programming block and international channel brand, launched on Disney Channel May 8, 1997, built on the Whole Child Curriculum, and rebranded Disney Junior from February 14, 2011.
Playing by ear
Playing by ear, also known as learning by ear, is the ability to play back music one has heard without ever seeing it written as sheet music, often with improvisation.
Playing by Heart
Playing by Heart (formerly Dancing About Architecture) is a 1998 ensemble comedy-drama written and directed by Willard Carroll, starring Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, and Angelina Jolie as eleven Los Angelenos entangled in love, released wide January 22, 1999 by Miramax.
Playing card
Playing card: thin coated pasteboard card for games, gambling, divination, and education; standard 52-card French-suited deck; originated in China, reached Europe in the 1360s.
Playing card suit
Playing card suit: the category symbol dividing a deck's cards, such as French spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs; also Latin (cups, coins, swords, batons), German (acorns, leaves, bells, hearts), and Swiss-German systems used in games and tarot.
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table
Playing Death Games to Put Food on the Table is a Japanese light novel series by Yūshi Ukai. It follows Yuuki, who competes in deadly games for a living.
Playing for Keeps (2012 film)
Playing for Keeps is a 2012 American romantic comedy directed by Gabriele Muccino, starring Gerard Butler as a faded soccer star who coaches his son's team in suburban Virginia.
Playing Gracie Darling
Playing Gracie Darling is a 2025 Australian six-part mystery drama miniseries by Miranda Nation for Paramount+ (later Netflix), starring Morgana O'Reilly as Joni Grey, whose friend vanished at a 1997 séance.
Playing House (TV series)
Playing House is a USA Network comedy (2014-2017) created by and starring real-life best friends Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair as Maggie and Emma, who raise a baby together in Pinebrook, CT; three seasons, 26 episodes, Metascore 65.
Playing It Cool
Playing It Cool, also known as A Many Splintered Thing, is a 2014 American romantic comedy starring Chris Evans and Michelle Monaghan, directed by Justin Reardon.
Playing Nice
Playing Nice is a four-part British psychological thriller series. It was adapted from JP Delaney's 2020 novel and stars James Norton, Niamh Algar, and James McArdle.
Playing time (cricket)
Playing time (cricket): how long cricket matches last by format. Test 5 days at 90 overs/day, ODI 50 overs 7-8 hours, T20 about 3 hours, The Hundred 100 balls; minimum over rates and lost-time rules.
Playing with Fire (2019 film)
Playing with Fire is a 2019 American family comedy directed by Andy Fickman and starring John Cena as a smokejumping firefighter who must babysit three rescued siblings.
Playland
Playland is a two-character play by South African playwright Athol Fugard, first performed in 1992, in which a black watchman and a white ex-soldier meet at a Karoo amusement park.
Playland amusement park (Pakistan)
Playland amusement park, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan; Jabees group's Playland and later Jabees Funland (opened 1976), major Karachi attractions 1966-2006 with roller coasters, dodgem cars and mini-train; distinct from Play Land Rawalpindi and Lahore playlands.
Playlunch (band)
Playlunch: Melbourne (Naarm) seven-piece "Bogan Funk" band founded by Liam Bell during COVID lockdown; albums Who's Ready for a Good Time? (2023) and Sex Ed (2025); "Keith" reached number 4 in the triple j Hottest 100 of 2025; signed to ABC Music in late 2024.
Playmaker
A playmaker in association football is the player given creative responsibility, making the difficult passes that turn possession into chances; the classic embodiment is the number 10.
Playmen
Playmen is a Greek dance-pop production and DJ act formed in Athens in 2009, known for "Fallin'" with Demy and as the first Greek DJs at Tomorrowland.
Playmobil
Playmobil, German system toy of 7.5 cm smiling figures by geobra Brandstätter, Zirndorf; created by Hans Beck for Horst Brandstätter, launched 1974 amid the oil crisis; over 3.8 billion figures, about 40 themes, sold in around 100 countries.
Playmobil: The Movie
Playmobil: The Movie is a 2019 animated musical directed by Lino DiSalvo, based on the German Playmobil toyline, also called Playmobil: Le film. It stars Anya Taylor-Joy and Daniel Radcliffe, cost about $75 million, and holds 16% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Playoff format
Playoff format: the rules for qualifying, seeding, and elimination rounds after a regular season. Covers single and double elimination, best-of-seven series, group-plus-knockout, seeding bias, byes, and home-field advantage.
Playoffs
A playoff is a post-season competition, usually a knockout tournament or elimination series, in which the teams finishing highest in a league's regular season play additional matches to decide the champion.
Playpen (website)
Playpen was a Tor hidden-service child abuse material site run by Steven Chase from August 2014, seized by the FBI in January 2015 and covertly operated under Operation Pacifier with an NIT warrant, leading to hundreds of arrests and major Rule 41 litigation.
Playrix
Playrix is a privately held mobile-games developer and publisher headquartered in Dublin, Ireland, founded by Russian-born brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman and known for Gardenscapes, Homescapes, Fishdom, and Township.
PlaySide Studios
PlaySide Studios Limited is an Australian video game developer and publisher in Port Melbourne, founded in 2011 and known for the Dumb Ways to Die games and Civilization VII VR.
PlaySimple
PlaySimple (PlaySimple Games Limited) is a Bengaluru-based mobile gaming studio founded in 2014, known for word games like Daily Themed Crossword and owned by Sweden's MTG since 2021.
PlayStation
PlayStation: Sony's home video game console brand since December 3, 1994, spanning five generations from PS1 (102M sold) to PS5 (95.3M, 72.4% of ninth-gen market), distinct from Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's consoles.
PlayStation (プレイステーション) (console)
PlayStation (プレイステーション), the original Sony console (PS1, PSX), launched in Japan December 3, 1994; 32-bit MIPS R3000A at 33.8688 MHz, CD-ROM format, 102 million units sold, versus N64 and Sega Saturn.
PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2 (PS2) is a Sony home video game console released in 2000 and the best-selling home console in history, with over 160 million sold.