Definition of "knifeplay"

Reinhart had finished his neat knifeplay, having transformed a half-pound of slab bacon into an accumulation of little strips measuring half an inch by an inch and a half.

1981, Thomas Berger, Reinhart's Women‎, Open Road, published 2013

"Can't either of you think? If we have to fight I want you to blary win. For that you need training and practice. Swordplay, knifeplay, bare-knuckle, staves. Archery. Trickery. Everything."

2009, Robert V. S. Redick, The Ruling Sea, Del Ray, published 2011, page 138

After a tense confrontation that almost lead to knifeplay, Lawrence recounted, "Mohammed Said and Abd el Kader then went away, breaking vengeance against me as a Christian."

2013, Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East‎, Knopf

When the professor turned out to be too warped even for my tastes — consensual knifeplay is one thing; drunken gunplay quite another […]

2009, Quince Mountain, “Cowboy for Christ”, in Jeff Sharlet, Peter Manseau, editors, Believer, Beware: First-Person Dispatches from the Margins of Faith, Beacon Press, page 116

Michael's knifeplay had never aroused him, but that fact had never concerned Jonathan, for Michael had never insisted upon it.

2009, Erastes, Transgressions, Running Press, page 318

Partly because I loved milder forms of knifeplay but had never taken it as far as I'd fantasized, but mostly because of her.

2014, D. L. King, She Who Must Be Obeyed, Lethe Press, page 106