The word(s) "play" appears 18 time(s) in 17 verse(s) in Quran in Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation.

(11) So leave them to babble and play (with vanities) until they meet that Day of theirs, which they have been promised.

(12) Yet they play about in doubt.

(13) The life of this world is but play and amusement: and if ye believe and guard against Evil, He will grant you your recompense, and will not ask you (to give up) your possessions.

(14) That play (and paddle) in shallow trifles.

(15) Know ye (all), that the life of this world is but play and amusement, pomp and mutual boasting and multiplying, (in rivalry) among yourselves, riches and children. Here is a similitude: How rain and the growth which it brings forth, delight (the hearts of) the tillers; soon it withers; thou wilt see it grow yellow; then it becomes dry and crumbles away. But in the Hereafter is a Penalty severe (for the devotees of wrong). And Forgiveness from Allah and (His) Good Pleasure (for the devotees of Allah). And what is the life of this world, but goods and chattels of deception?

(16) So leave them to plunge in vain talk and play about, until they encounter that Day of theirs which they have been promised!-

(17) By the sky, (displaying) the Zodiacal Signs;