Free Play

Free Play may refer to:

  • Free Play (Derrida), a philosophical concept devised by Jacques Derrida
  • "Free Play", the creative activity of spontaneous free improvisation, by children, by artists, and people of all kinds, as described in the book Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, by Stephen Nachmanovitch
  • Freeplay Energy, a British portable appliance manufacturer and distributor
  • Freeplay Replay, a 1990s lottery game played in Iowa
  • A play with a defensive penalty (American football), which gives the offense the opportunity to accept either the outcome of the play or the penalty
  • A mode in arcade games where no coins are needed, the game may be played for free.

Famous quotes containing the words free and/or play:

    “The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings. ... they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)

    “But when we play the fool, how wide
    The theatre expands! beside,
    How long the audience sits before us!
    How many prompters! what a chorus!”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)