In any other martial art, they would probably say 'fight' or 'spar'. However, in Capoeira, the term used was 'play'. Capoeira was multifaceted. It was honed on slave plantations in Brazil hundreds of years ago. To disguise that they were teaching each other to fight, slaves would mask their moves. They would make it look like they were just dancing, hence the music and the singing. They would joke around too, making their activities look like they were just playing games, hence why capoeiristas to this day only used the word 'play' instead of 'fight', which is of course what they were really doing.
I didn't know that was why 'play' was used! Help, I now need to read everything about capoeira.
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