# Power Play

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
* Powerplay (Ice Hockey), a situation in ice hockey where one team has a numerical advantage following one or more minor or major penalties

## 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
* Powerplay (band) [nl]
* Power Play (April Wine album), 1982
* Power Play (Dragon album), 1979

## Video games

* PC PowerPlay, a PC games magazine published in Australia
* Power Play (magazine) [de], 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
* Powerplay: The Game of the Gods [it], 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)