[ noun ] an artifact designed to be played with <noun.artifact>
Plaything \Play"thing`\, n. A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse.
A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. --Locke.
It's not a question of the Commission having some expensive plaything,' Mr Delors told journalists on the eve of the summit.
International electronic mail systems are no longer the plaything of hackers and bug-eyed computer enthusiasts.
Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, who traditionally has viewed the capital-gains tax preference as the ultimate plaything of the rich, is signaling a change of heart may be on the way _ if the price is right.
Harriet Sergeant's clothes, like her word processor, are a tool not a plaything.
A cardinal principle of American constitutional morality is that the Constitution should be altered only when absolutely necessary; it ought not to be treated as a political plaything.
Once a high-tech plaything, the cellular telephone is fast becoming a fixture of American life.