plays; amuses oneself; sports; celebrates (a festival or holiday)

to play, sport, enjoy or amuse oneself Vin.iv.112 (udake k. sport in the water); Pv.ii.1#21 (= indriyāni paricarāmi Pv-a.77) DN.ii.196; Ja.v.38 Thig.147; Pv-a.16, Pv-a.67, Pv-a.77, Pv-a.189
■ c …

to play (a game), to sport Mil.359 (kīḷaṃ).

abhi + kìḷati

…Dhp-a.ii.228. -ṃ kīḷati to play at d. Ja.i.289 Ja.iii.187
■ See also dūta².

• -gīta a verse…

…to play, sport: see kīḷati

Keḷi²

feminine the meaning is not quite defined it may be taken as…

…; Pv.iv.7#2; Vism.619.

Vedic krīḍā, cp. kīḷati

plaything, a toy Thig.384 (with ref. to the moon).

fr. kīḷati

…Pv-a.76 (sādhu˚)
■ (nt.) amusement, sport celebration MN.i.229 (kīḷita-jātaṃ kīḷati). Cp. sahapaṃsu˚˚; see also…

…nakkhatta-kīḷaṃ kīḷati to celebrate a festival (i.e. the full moon when standing in a certain Nakkhatta) Vv-a.109, Thag-a.137;…

…Vv-a.41 (laḷantī; with kīḷati), Vv-a.57 (id.)
caus laḷeti Ja.i.362 (ppr. lāḷentā); Vism.365; cp. upa˚
pp laḷita: see…

…According to its use with kīḷati & in instr.; mokkhacikena (Cnd.219 may be either a sort of game or an instrument (toy)…

…ghositaṃ Vv-a.31 kīḷati to celebrate a (nakkhatta-) festival Ja.i.50, Ja.i.250; Vv-a.63; Dhp-a.i.393 (cp….

adjective engrossed in play Ja.vi.313.

Sk. *nikrīḍita, pp. of nikrīḍayati, ni + kīḷati

adjective playful, playing or dallying with (c. loc.), finding enjoyment in SN.i.9 (a˚ kāmesu), SN.iv.110 (id.).

fr. ni-kīḷati

…adverbially: okkandikaṃ kīḷati to sport (loudly or joyfully). C. explains as “migo viya okkandi-katvā kīḷati”; in the way of…

to play or sport DN.i.91; AN.iv.55, AN.iv.343; DN-a.i.256.

saṃ + kīḷati

in -ṃ kīḷati a water-game: playing with drops of water (?) Vin.iii.118 (Bdhgh. udañjalan ti udaka-cikkhallo vuccati p. 274)

udan + jala…