Is it possible to play an animation by clicking and dragging?

I currently have right and left arrow buttons to control an animation.
I was wondering if it's possible to control the animation by dragging the mouse? So if the user clicked and dragged the mouse to the left it would play the animation, then when they released the click it would stop. And if they dragged to the right it would play in reverse.
I've been looking around and haven't found anything on this topic. Any help would be appreciated.

Hi, cameronnicol-
The code should work on the Stage, as it's internally just a symbol. You should ensure that you reference the object as Stage in your code and not stage (note the capitalization). The other thing to consider is that click and drag events are not very performant on devices; touch events generally register very quickly and will give your users a better experience.
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