The phrase "appetite for play" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a desire or enthusiasm for engaging in playful activities or games.
Example: "Children often have a natural appetite for play, which is essential for their development and creativity."
Alternatives: "desire for play" or "enthusiasm for play".
But his insatiable appetite for playing has played its part.
Milan vs. Bologna; Juventus vs. Roma Italy seeks to get back its appetite for playing after the fixtures last weekend were postponed following the fatal collapse of Piermario Morosini during Livorno's second-division match at Pescara last Saturday.
Even in as large and wealthy a country as the United States, where the national appetite for playing, and even more so for watching, games is enormous, the cultural, economic and psychological space available for sport is limited and that space is already taken.
Preview performances of the new Broadway revival of "West Side Story" have lifted spirits across New York theaters: drawing gross revenues of more than $1 million in each of its first two weeks, the show demonstrates that the appetite for plays and musicals is alive and well despite the recession.
But Mr. Corea is the type of restless soul in jazz -- Duke Ellington was another -- who has such an appetite for playing and creating that the question of what he has to do to make a living or to keep his face to the public is completely beside the point.
And whatever questions anyone has about Mr. Zucker's ability to find the right sitcoms and dramas to sustain NBC's now-fading position as the leading prime-time network, no one would question his appetite for playing the competitively fierce network game.
Dinesh Raheja from Rediff stated that Kapadia's involvement in art films happened at a time when she "exhausted her appetite for playing the pretty prop in hero-oriented films", arguing that they "honed Dimple's talent for lending fine striations to complex emotions".
But the initial turnout was encouraging, and she had good timing: The comedy film "DodgeBall" came out in 2004 and whetted adults' appetites for playing a game they had enjoyed as children.
"[Technology] isn't necessarily a solitary experience … It offers huge opportunities to inform and inspire children's sense of adventure and appetite for outdoor play".
