Adjective : the ludic behavior of kittens.    From Dictionary.com. 

I've adopted the term ludic-contract because I think that that gets to the heart of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [SonyBay] Reference

Then you have what I call the ludic cartoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Diffee: Bob Mankoff Interview: Part Two] Reference

It is a kind of ludic variety of the Spanish language that we speak in Argentina.    From Wordnik.com.  [On linguistic dreams] Reference

Google lists about 370k hits for "ludic," as opposed to just over 1k for "ludenic.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Strong Tide of Reviews, Washing In . . .] Reference

When we categorize a world as "ludic", we discount the value of social responsibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

In between the excellent story elements, the "ludic" or play narrative affords the freedom to do a variety of activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bart Motes: Summer Western Blockbuster Won't Be Hitting Big Screens] Reference

Wineburg notes the "ludic" nature-right down to reading with silly voices-of a skilled historian's engagement with primary texts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old is the New New] Reference

Pleasure reading is also known as "ludic reading.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest for Online Ludic Reading] Reference

From the literary to the ludic indeed! about suttree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » 2009 » November] Reference

My point was moreso it is largely a civil construct with a ludic core.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

Social-worlds differ from ludic-worlds at least in respect of identity play.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

Virtual worlds may, too, be as dissimilar to one another in their ludic natures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

Video games tend to be very ludic things, entirely based on rules and struc­ture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pure Play in Adulthood « Snarkmarket] Reference

My first way of doing things was by avatar, so I had ludic, social, civil and self.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

Professional sports bodies tend to own things in a similar way to ludic-world owners.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

They'll understand the relative strengths and weaknesses of paidic and ludic gameplay.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

Offline, how could anyone "own" a social world in the same way a ludic world is controlled?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

How does the reality of virtual spaces touch on the ludic or game like quality of game spaces?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Day 2, first round] Reference

This way, a world can have a strong ludic focus with social elements and a touch of civics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

That is, there exists some acts which can occur within a ludic context, but are themselves, not ludic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

If "ludology" is the study of games, would "ludic" be an adjective that describes the game-ness of things?.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Gamer] Reference

For example: I think SL is less ludic than, say, the Sims Online, as there are fewer specific rules and roles.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Gamer] Reference

In those days, at NYU, he recalls they would spend a lot of time discussing the ludic mechanics of social lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Foursquare be the new Twitter?] Reference

There is no question there is a ludic context in Boxing, and such context needs to be, and is, understood in law.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

The nested part comes when I think that a ludic world could not exist without at least the existence of a social world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

Meanwhile, and off to one side, the ludic principle that is hard-wired in the human species is represented by Paul Klee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art and Design in the Lab] Reference

Players can leave all their virtual worlds for good: their ludic desires can find other expression, other opportunities.    From Wordnik.com.  [November 2008] Reference

Not to be pedantic, but I have always thought of ludic as coming from the Latin notion of Ludus, which means play, not game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ludotopian] Reference

The chap's witty design facilitates the author's long-held ludic approach to mixing real-life references with poetic personas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

In a ludic-world we give certain things up to the fiction of the world, the rules of the game and the enforcement of these rules.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference

If one can like surrealism and ludic games in Gogol, then one should be able to appreciate the same in a good contemporary writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Wood on his Criticism and Critics] Reference

To the extent the story is simply window dressing for the ludic structure, I agree that my personal inclination would be to ignore it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Norrath's Fictional Factions] Reference

And with respect to the worlds, I don't think that these issues fall naturally out of an analysis along ludic, social, and civil worlds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Four Worlds Theory] Reference