边做边玩 work part of the time, play part of the time part leisure part work The above is actually a rough translation. It actually depends on the context in which you are saying 边做边玩. If your sentence is: 我现在在厨房做菜，可是我不是太认真的。我是边做边玩。 Then the translation would be: Right now I'm in the kitchen cooking. But I'm not being very serious. I'm partly cooking and partly playing (or messing) around. If you were making or doing something else, the translation will be different.

The fun is in the doing. (I think this is the best) Play by doing. (Google threw this one up)

be partly doing and partly playing .i agree with Dark Panther .

i dont know chinese

Play-by-doing