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 play, free and/or play:
“Under weak government, in a wide, thinly populated country, in the struggle against the raw natural environment and with the free play of economic forces, unified social groups become the transmitters of culture.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“I feel a sincere wish indeed to see our government brought back to it’s republican principles, to see that kind of government firmly fixed, to which my whole life has been devoted. I hope we shall now see it so established, as that when I retire, it may be under full security that we are to continue free and happy.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)