The phrase "a question of playing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the nature or importance of playing in a particular context, such as sports, games, or activities.
Example: "In this debate, it's really a question of playing fair versus winning at all costs."
Alternatives: "a matter of playing" or "an issue of playing".
It will be a question of playing a clip from her rendition of I Dreamed A Dream and getting her up on stage.
If you love one brand, go for it, but it's a question of playing to the strength of different companies – I'd buy primer from Laura Mercier, but foundation from Armani, say.
As Franco Ferrari (the former head of Italian football's technical HQ Coverciano) says in Gianluca Vialli and Gabriele Marcotti's brilliant The Italian Job, "In Italy we just look to the result, we don't care how we obtained it, it's all about the result … it's not a question of playing well or building a base for the future, you have to win".
It's a question of playing for 80 minutes, and again we were unable to do that.
It's a question of confidence and a question of playing a lot of tennis on grass over the years for me.
"Herb shifted the paradigm, and argued the case as a question of sedition, playing on the American law's antipathy to the idea of seditious libel" -- language criticizing a government in a way that could incite insurrection.
Clinton is framing the expansion of early childhood education as a question of equity, playing off profound "word gaps" between rich and poor children before they even start school.
The players removed from the starting XV will all come off the bench at some stage and so it is only a question of who plays at which point of the game, not of anyone having been dropped.
It's not a question of the others playing more softly but of being a bit woollier while she's ridgier.
It was a question of role-playing, he went on.
It's a question of when play tips into reality: when does fantasy fascism become a genuine dictatorship?
