The word 'playpen' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to a small enclosed area, often made of mesh or plastic, where young children can play safely. Example: "The toddler happily played with his toys in the playpen while his parents cooked dinner in the kitchen."
"London's been turned into a teenager asking parents for money".Wanted: a mayor with a stake in economic growthAll this confines mayoral elections to a political playpen, in which symbolic public works stand for larger battles.
The regional boards overseeing the river levees, once a patronage playpen, have been restructured and professionalised.
It would grant the organisation a legitimacy it does not deserve.The UN is the playpen of Russia, China, France and a host of other countries that actively oppose America at every turn.
That should enable faster growth and an easier path to a conventional stockmarket listing.Sceptics worry that crowdfunding venues will become a playpen for fraudsters targeting the poor and credulous.
The tribunal seemed little more than a playpen for lawyers.
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There's fun to be had in its bizarre playpen where stamping on sandcastles is infinitely more important than building them, but don't be surprised if you find that the series' ill-drawn, violet-clad protagonists are guffawing at proceedings more often than you are.
The off-key nature was evident in the breakdown being contested more like a bundle in the kindergarten playpen than the all-in mixed martial arts normally expected of the Springboks.
The message is clear; life beyond showbiz is barely worth living and the best start you can give your brats is to make sure they stay firmly within the limits of the plush playpen.
Finally, and crucially, there is the jarring, humorous detail – as tourists peer down from the 220m dam, a baby sits behind them in a playpen, happily looking right at the camera.
While never risk averse in pushing the boundaries of sporting extremes, the idea of effectively constructing a 3000m-high backyard playpen for a single member of its athlete's club, akin to being asked by a racing driver for a private racetrack, was emblematic of both White's status as an elite sports star and also his sport's transition from teenage rampage to billion-dollar industry.
