footplay

English

Noun

footplay (uncountable)

1. (sports, dance) footwork
   • 1921, The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal:

     So we look at the fight, and what do we see? We see that the best fighter combines footplay with fist-work.

   • 1984, Professor of English and Comparative Literature Tobin Siebers, Tobin Siebers, The Romantic Fantastic:

     Quite “beside himself,” he dances up and down the Corso, seeking to engage Princess Brambilla in wild and inspired footplay, but she is not to be found.

2. footsie
   • 1969, Angus Wilson, Death Dance: Twenty-five Stories, Viking:

     Minnie's flirtatious footplay with Harry was somewhat marred by an occasional hiccough.

3. Sexual activity or play involving the feet
   • 2013 06, Gloria G. Brame, The Truth about Sex, a Sex Primer for the 21st Century Volume II: Sex for Grown-Ups, CCB Publishing, →ISBN, page 71:

     Though Arden had assumed she enjoyed the footplay, I knew there was always the possibility that her hormones and brain chemistry made her more accommodating and willing to stretch her own boundaries for the sake of pleasing him.