Power play is a sporting term used in various games.

Power play or powerplay may also refer to:

Sports

• Powerplay (cricket), a rule concerning fielding restrictions in one-day international cricket

• Power play (curling), a rule concerning the placing of stones in doubles curling

• PowerPlay Golf, a variation of nine-hole golf, featuring two flags on a green

Literature

Fiction

• Power Play, a 1977 novel by James Herbert Brennan

• Power Play, a 1979 novel by Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir; the thirty-sixth installment in The Destroyer novel series

• Power Plays, a 1979 novel by Collin Wilcox

• Power Play, a 1982 novel by Jayne Castle

• Power Play, a 1983 novel by Francine Pascal; the fourth installment in the Sweet Valley High series

• Power Play, a 1988 novel by Penny Jordan

• Power Play, a 1991 Hardy Boys novel by Rick Oliver writing as Franklin W. Dixon; the 50th installment in the Hardy Boys Casefiles series

• Power Play, a 1995 Petaybee series novel by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

• Tom Clancy's Power Plays, a 1997–2004 novel series created by Tom Clancy

• Mighty Ducks: Power Play, a 1997 chapter book by Nancy E. Krulik; part of the Disney Chapters book series and based on the television series Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series

• Power Play, a 1998 novel by Alan Gibbons

Non-fiction

• Power Play: How Video Games Can Save the World, a 2017 book by Asi Burak and Laura Parker

• Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century, a 2021 book by Tim Higgins

Film and TV

Film

• Power Play (1978 film), a 1978 British-Canadian political thriller film

• Power Play (2003 film), a 2003 American action film

• Power Play (2021 film), a 2021 Indian crime thriller film

Television

• Power Play (1998 TV series), a 1998–2000 Canadian series about a hockey team in Hamilton, Ontario

• Power Play (2009 TV program), a 2009 Canadian political affairs program

• Power Play, an American program from Night Tracks that aired on TBS from 1985 to 1988 and from 1988 to 1989 as Power Play Dancin

Episodes

• "Power Play" (Angel), 2004

• "Power Play" (Cheers), 1983

• "Power Play" (Hit the Floor), 2016

• "Power Play" (Knots Landing), 1982

• "Power Play" (Pretty Little Liars), 2017

• "Power Play" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), 1992

• "Power Play" (Static Shock), 2002

• "Power Play" (White Collar), 2011

Music

• Power Play (quartet), an American barbershop quartet

• Power Play (April Wine album), 1982

• Power Play (Dragon album), 1979

Video games

• PC PowerPlay, a PC games magazine published in Australia

• , a defunct German computer and video game magazine published by Markt+Technik

• PowerPlay (technology), a defunct standard for networked video gaming headed by Valve and Cisco Systems

• Logitech PowerPlay, a mousepad released in 2017

• Powerplay Cruiser, a joystick released in the early 1990s

• Commodore Power/Play, a defunct video game magazine

• , an ZX Spectrum games

Other uses

• Powerplay (theory), international politics theory, raised by Victor D.Cha

• AMD PowerPlay, a power management technology from ATI Technologies/AMD

• Power Play (audio drama), an audio drama based on the Doctor Who television series

• PowerPlay (lottery)

See also

• Power (play), a 2003 play by British playwright Nick Dear