"pretend games" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to imaginative games children or adults play. For example: My brother and I used to play pretend games when we were younger.
Try making up pretend games to play while jumping.
That's how baseball — all sports, really — grew for me, from the Wiffle ball games in the backyard to the pretend games off the brick wall to the bike rides through the neighborhood and Little League games and then to the high school games.
Afterward, we'd either watch a Disney movie, play "pretend" games in Samantha's mom's bedroom or - our helpers' favorite - have a dance party.
‡Toys that make or play music; toys or objects meant for stacking, constructing or building; things for drawing, writing, coloring, and painting; toys for moving around; toys to play pretend games; picture books and drawing books for children; and toys for learning shapes and colors.
Play pretend games, eat pretend food.
Remember those pretend games you played as a child?
If they press all commercial real estate to be current, performing and value-good on a very hard basis, that will spell the end to the "extend and pretend" game.
It's a rather better choice than pretending games are stupid or teaching kids about the joys of gambling, don't you think?" The Children's Media Yearbook can be ordered from its website for £7.95 as a download or £10 as a printed book.
You need to give them your attention and listen to them and play their games, and those crazy pretending games take a lot of energy.
I was sure that thousands of Russians were smirking in recognition of the old pretending game: Putin was lying to us, we knew he was lying, he knew we knew he was lying, but he kept lying anyway, and we pretended to believe him.
When adults imagine ourselves to be the objects of robots' affection, we play a pretend game.
