"play maneuvers" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to strategic or tactical moves made in a game or sport. Example: The team's coach meticulously planned out their play maneuvers for the upcoming soccer match.
Runs and a 5-yard penalty produced all but 8 yards of a 79-yard, 7-play maneuver as they drew within 14-10.
There are procedural games that are played, parliamentary maneuvers.
She's no stranger to power plays, reportedly maneuvering to oust her father in 2004 over a disagreement in vision (the effort failed, and Edward remains the chairman of the company).
(Even that is faulty, in that playing defense in baseball is a lot like playing pool; flashy maneuvers might get raves, but the best are deft enough to make everything look easy).
Evan Osnos has more on how these maneuvers played in Beijing.
Texas' boardroom maneuvers played a large part in driving out Nebraska (Big Ten) and Texas A&M (SEC), and created much of the uncertainty and tumult on the college sports landscape.
Flying out of Henderson Field over the next three months, Captain Foss and his fliers, a band known as Joe's Flying Circus for its acrobatic maneuvers, played a major role in defending Guadalcanal.
The series of maneuvers plays out in the video: About 3 p.m., a man wearing black and walking backward hands a black bag to a man wearing a white T-shirt, who takes the weapon, a.32-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, from the bag and puts it in his waistband.
The show offers irreverent and ribald insights into Greco-Roman wrestling and weight lifting and whispered gymnastics play-by-play that describes floor exercise maneuvers as "hello boys," "crazy dates" and a "wide walk with a touch of goose".
These were careful maneuvers that played as a contrast to Ms. Apple's voice, which can be raspy and slithery and unhinged when she so chooses.
