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Practise golf in the children’s playground (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

swing

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'playground' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'practise golf in the children's' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
'golf' could be 'g' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.) and 'g' is found within the answer.
'in' is present in the answer.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for swing that I've seen before include "Oscillate - jazz style" , "Big Band Sound" , "Sweeping blow or stroke" , "Die" , "Type of music" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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