"gentle play" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to an action that is not too rough or aggressive. For example, you might say, "My daughter loves to have gentle play time with her friends."
The gentle play is especially good for toddlers and very small children.
All of this is presented in a beautiful space within what was once a lobby; a gentle play of borrowed wood beams and scrims makes the restaurant feel anything but entry-like.
For all its appealingly acerbic humor, this gentle play, which sometimes recalls the amiably crowd-pleasing comedies of Neil Simon, clearly is not going to foist a violent ending upon us.
Describing Beryl as a "gentle" play, Peake says her aim was simple: "What I wanted with Beryl, all I wanted really, was a celebration of this amazing woman and her amazing achievements".
Although the stage was alive with motion, causing the eye to flit here and there, Fenley somehow managed to imbue the choreography with stillness and serenity, even in an impish repeated motif of stylized flexed arms and fists — a gentle play on a pugilist's pose.
Ike Schambelan, the artistic director of Theater Breaking Through Barriers, directed the LaBute work as well as Mr. Gurney's intelligent if unnecessarily gentle play, "The Interview," about a father and his son, who reveals that he refused to wear his hearing aid during a college interview.
Rousseau blissful and gentle played the violin... " Others denied that the occasion was, as she made it sound, a burlesque.
There was also a connection, for, as Ransom Wilson pointed out in his fine and gentle playing in the Duo, this late piece touchingly includes some Appalachian echoes.
He is gentle playing with the dog, yet searching around wondering who could have abandon this animal.
A game about scaling exotic cliff-faces by looking towards handholds, then clamping down a controller button to hang on, it combines giddy photorealistic views with a gentle playing rhythm and enough in the way of tactical thinking (about choice of routes) to get your cortex humming.
Gentle playing and regular care are required to maintain a good tone as long as possible.
