The phrase "a playful activity" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an activity that is fun, lighthearted, and enjoyable, often associated with play or recreation.
Example: "The children engaged in a playful activity, building sandcastles on the beach."
Alternatives: "a fun pastime" or "a lighthearted game."
But writing poetry should be a playful activity, too.
Starting with his eldest daughter, Susan, Polgár was careful to treat it as a playful activity, turning it into a fantasy of dramatic wins and losses.
Genital displays are used to indicate emotional states, and group members shake branches, which is apparently a playful activity.
Sport is too often regarded as a playful activity and not a vital social, medical, cultural or economic factor.
He'd gained international acclaim the year before for a tale of a young man who, while planning to marry a girl he met at mass, spent a Night At Maud's discussing moral philosophy, while Maud showed a clear preference for more playful activity (at the crucial moment, our virtuous hero discourteously left).
What is clear, is that the toddler's lived experiences, and, in particular, the video captured self initiated playful activity, occur in a holistic learning context.
Since then, he's conducted extensive research that shows a strong correlation between success and playful activity.
People could enjoy dancing as a playful, sportive activity rather than as an exercise of courtly etiquette.
In toddler initiated symbolic playful activity, there will not be an artifical or superficial use of an abstraction (such as a sign or word) but rather, according to Gonzalez-Rey (2009), a subjectively configured production.
The social and playful activity certainly draws attention and make a person more interested in you.
The story, shot on a scant budget, entirely out of doors and on location in Paris, is, like so many of Rivette's films, a work of dark whimsy: a world of grim mystery shimmers through its puckish, colorful surfaces and playful activity.
