word play

However, sports such as swimming, bowling, and golf do not use the word play.

How common is word play in the languages that you speak?

This caused me great trouble, for it seemed mere word play.

He said the word "play" as if it was an obscenity.

Thus "who shall save his people from their sins" can be considered word play on Jesus' name.

"Commander, I did not come here to engage in word play."

A good way to think of poetry is to consider it word play.

A constant element has been word play, including the characters' names.

This isn't just word play; there is a real similarity in the problems facing the two institutions.

We were getting into word play, and I was not in the mood for games.