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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-au-child's play.ogg
Etymology: From child + -’s + play, originally referring literally to play by a child. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|child|-'s|play|alt2=-’s|notext=1|type=exocentric}} child + -’s + play Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} child's play (uncountable)
  1. (idiomatic) Something particularly easy or simple. Tags: idiomatic, uncountable Categories (topical): Children Synonyms: kid stuff, piece of cake Related terms: easy as pie, like taking candy from a baby, easy Translations (something particularly easy or simple): παιδιή (paidiḗ) (Ancient Greek), 兒戲 [Hokkien] (Chinese), 儿戏 (jî-hì; lî-hì) [Hokkien] (Chinese), 兒戲 (Chinese Cantonese), 儿戏 (Chinese Cantonese), 兒戲 (Chinese Mandarin), 儿戏 (érxì) (Chinese Mandarin), 如同兒戲 (Chinese Mandarin), 如同儿戏 (rútóng'érxì) (Chinese Mandarin), 很容易的事 (hěn róngyì de shì) (Chinese Mandarin), 小兒科 (Chinese Mandarin), 小儿科 (xiǎo'érkē) (Chinese Mandarin), kinderspel [neuter] (Dutch), infana ludo (Esperanto), lastenleikki (Finnish), jeu d’enfant (French), Kinderspiel [neuter] (German), Spaziergang [masculine] (German), gyerekjáték (Hungarian), barnaleikur [masculine] (Icelandic), auðveldur [masculine] (Icelandic), innanhandar (Icelandic), leika sér að (Icelandic), leikur [masculine] (Icelandic), gioco da bambini [masculine] (Italian), gioco da ragazzi [masculine] (Italian), 朝飯前のこと (asameshimae-no koto) (alt: あさめしまえのこと) (Japanese), 児戯 (jigi) (Japanese), お茶の子 (o-cha-no ko) (alt: おちゃのこ) (Japanese), barnemat [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), barnemat [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Spälarie [feminine] (Plautdietsch), dziecinada [feminine] (Polish), pikuś [masculine] (Polish), brincadeira de criança [feminine] (Portuguese), joacă de copil [feminine] (Romanian), игру́шки (igrúški) [feminine, plural] (Russian), пустяки́ (pustjakí) [masculine, plural] (Russian), се́мечки (sémečki) [neuter, plural] (Russian), играрија [Cyrillic, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), igrarija [Roman, feminine] (Serbo-Croatian), juego de niños [masculine] (Spanish), pan comido [masculine] (Spanish), una papa [Argentina, feminine] (Spanish), barnlek [common-gender] (Swedish), çocuk oyuncağı (Turkish), chwarae bach [masculine] (Welsh)

Alternative forms

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          "text": "The brawny craftsman finds it no child's play to mould his unpliant rugged masses; neither is guidance of men a dilettantism: what it becomes when treated as a dilettantism, we may see!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter III, in The History of England from the Accession of James II, volume I, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 322:",
          "text": "In every county there were elderly gentlemen who had seen service which was no child's play.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1914, Robert Frost, “A Servant to Servants”, in North of Boston, London: David Nutt […], →OCLC, page 74:",
          "text": "He'd pull his bars apart like bow and bow-string, / And let them go and make them twang until / His hands had worn them smooth as any ox-bow. / And then he'd crow as if he thought that child's play— / The only fun he had.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1949 January–February, F. G. Roe, “I Saw Three Englands–1”, in The Railway Magazine, London: Tothill Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:",
          "text": "I knew something of the railway engineer's uncanny genius for finding a path through such barriers if any path existed; yet I also knew the path would be no child's play.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Something particularly easy or simple."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "particularly",
          "particularly"
        ],
        [
          "easy",
          "easy#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "simple",
          "simple#Adjective"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Something particularly easy or simple."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "kid stuff"
        },
        {
          "word": "piece of cake"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈt͡ʃaɪldz ˌpleɪ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American",
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "兒戲"
    },
    {
      "code": "yue",
      "lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "儿戏"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "兒戲"
    },
    {
      "code": "nan-hbl",
      "lang": "Chinese",
      "roman": "jî-hì; lî-hì",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "Hokkien"
      ],
      "word": "儿戏"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "兒戲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "érxì",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "儿戏"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "如同兒戲"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "rútóng'érxì",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "如同儿戏"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "hěn róngyì de shì",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "很容易的事"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "小兒科"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xiǎo'érkē",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "小儿科"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kinderspel"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "infana ludo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "lastenleikki"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "jeu d’enfant"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kinderspiel"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Spaziergang"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "paidiḗ",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "παιδιή"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "gyerekjáték"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barnaleikur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "auðveldur"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "innanhandar"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "leika sér að"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "leikur"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gioco da bambini"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gioco da ragazzi"
    },
    {
      "alt": "あさめしまえのこと",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "asameshimae-no koto",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "朝飯前のこと"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jigi",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "児戯"
    },
    {
      "alt": "おちゃのこ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "o-cha-no ko",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "お茶の子"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "note": "누워서 떡 먹기 (nuwoseo tteok meokgi, literally “eating rice cakes while lying down”)",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "note": "식은 죽 먹기 (sigeun juk meokgi, literally “eating cold porridge”)",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barnemat"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "barnemat"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Spälarie"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dziecinada"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pikuś"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "brincadeira de criança"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "joacă de copil"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "igrúški",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "игру́шки"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "pustjakí",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "пустяки́"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "sémečki",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "neuter",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "се́мечки"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "играрија"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "igrarija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "juego de niños"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pan comido"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "Argentina",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "una papa"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "barnlek"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "word": "çocuk oyuncağı"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "something particularly easy or simple",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chwarae bach"
    }
  ],
  "word": "child's play"
}

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