The phrase "a type of playing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific category or style of play in various contexts, such as games, sports, or music.
Example: "Chess is a type of playing that requires strategic thinking and foresight."
Alternatives: "a form of play" or "a style of playing".
This variety is not just a type of play or dazzling embellishment - it has the ability to suggest entirely different eras, different worlds of thought, belief and sensation.
Heroic play, also called heroic drama or heroic tragedy, a type of play prevalent in Restoration England during the 1660s and 1670s.
Fate tragedy, also called fate drama German, Schicksalstragödie, a type of play especially popular in early 19th-century Germany in which a malignant destiny drives the protagonist to commit a horrible crime, often unsuspectingly.
He mixed fairy-tale fantasy and realism in a type of play he called fiabe, the best-known example being L'amore delle tre melarance (1761; The Love of Three Oranges).
Not many books these days remind you so directly and forcefully that reading is about creating new ways of seeing the world and new imaginative worlds to inhabit -- that it's a type of play, and that like all play it can transform grown-ups' lives as much as children's.
In the professional game, frames tend to unfold with vivid, unsettling ease — the balls slide into the pockets as if there were nowhere else for them to go — or with staggering, metaphysical difficulty, as the players foil one another by arranging the balls in illogical patterns, a type of play known as "safety," and everyone's nerves go to hell.
Plasmalogens, a type of phospholipid, play an important role in cell signaling, membrane structure, and are protective against reactive oxygen species.
In some studies, chasing is considered a type of locomotor play or social play that is separate from rough-and-tumble play because it does not involve direct contact between the two animals.
"I decided to develop a type of musical play which leans more and more toward opera," Kurt Weill declared in 1946, after he fled Nazi Germany and came to New York.
A type of shadow play called nang talung, in which a single, seated puppeteer moves small puppets of individual figures with movable arms, is very popular in southern Thailand.
