0 a play that tells the story of Jesus Christ's birth, usually performed by children at Christmas --
Mo takes charge of a children's nativity play but fails to keep the children under control.
Jacob's helmet from his nativity play costume is discovered and the search focuses on the area where it was found.
This is sometimes credited as the first nativity play.
Freedom of religion: at my niece's school, for the first time this year, there was no nativity play.
Nativity plays and pageants, culminating in living nativity scenes, eventually entered public schools.
Caroling and nativity plays are frequent sights during the season.
It is almost poetry to see some of the nativity plays that are being performed in infant and primary schools.
We went to a lot of nativity plays.