Playing cards are thin pieces of cardboard with numbers or pictures printed on them, which are used to play various games.
playing card in British English
noun
one of a pack of 52 rectangular stiff cards, used for playing a variety of games, each card having one or more symbols of the same kind (diamonds, hearts, clubs, or spades) on the face, but an identical design on the reverse
See also suit (sense 4)
Examples of 'playing card' in a sentence
playing card
The tickering from the car, but not the car, the noise of a playing card flicking over the wheel spokes of a bicycle.
Robert Wilson INSTRUMENTS OF DARKNESS (2002)
In other languages
playing card
British English: playing card /ˈpleɪɪŋ kɑːd/ NOUN
Playing cards are thin pieces of card with numbers and pictures on them, which are used to play games.
...a deck of playing cards.
American English: playing card
Arabic: وَرَقَةٌ لَعِب
Brazilian Portuguese: baralho
Chinese: 扑克牌
Croatian: igraća karta
Czech: hrací karta
Danish: spillekort
Dutch: speelkaart
European Spanish: naipe
Finnish: pelikortti
French: carte à jouer
German: Spielkarte
Greek: τραπουλόχαρτο
Italian: carte da gioco
Japanese: トランプ
Korean: 카드
Norwegian: spillkort
Polish: karta do gry
European Portuguese: carta de jogar
Romanian: cărți de joc
Russian: игральная карта
Latin American Spanish: naipe
Swedish: spelkort
Thai: ไพ่หนึ่งสำรับ
Turkish: oyun kartı
Ukrainian: гральна карта
Vietnamese: quân bài
Chinese translation of 'playing card'
playing card
(ˈpleɪɪŋ-)
n(c)
纸(紙)牌 (zhǐpái) (张(張), zhāng)
card
(kɑːd)
n
(c) (= record card, index card etc) 卡片 (kǎpiàn) (张(張), zhāng)
(c) (also playing card) 扑(撲)克牌 (pūkèpái) (张(張), zhāng)
(c) (= greetings card) 贺(賀)卡 (hèkǎ) (张(張), zhāng)
(c) (also business card) 名片 (míngpiàn) (张(張), zhāng)
(c) (= bank card, credit card) 信用卡 (xìnyòngkǎ) (张(張), zhāng)