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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”), Icelandic gaman (“fun”). Related to gammon, gamble.
Noun
game (countable and uncountable, plural games)
- A playful or competitive activity.
- A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
- Synonyms: amusement, diversion, entertainment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gambol, lark, merriment, merrymaking, pastime, play, prank, recreation, sport, spree
- Antonyms: drudgery, work, toil
Being a child is all fun and games.
- (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:game
1983, Lawrence Lasker et al., WarGames:Joshua: Shall we play a game?
David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
Joshua: Fine.
Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
- (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, →OCLC, page 37:From time to time, track-suited boys ran past them, with all the deadly purpose and humourless concentration of those who enjoyed Games.
- (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
- Synonym: match
Sally won the game.
They can turn the game around in the second half.
1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
- That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
- The number of points necessary to win a game.
In short whist, five points are game.
- See also: for the win
- (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
- (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.
- One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
Study can help your game of chess.
Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.
1951, J. D. Salinger, chapter 11, in The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:I played golf with her that same afternoon. She lost eight balls, I remember. Eight. I had a terrible time getting her to at least open her eyes when she took a swing at the ball. I improved her game immensely, though.
- (countable) Ellipsis of video game.
2019 May 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian:There’s a sense here, as well as in games such as Limbo, that we’re making ourselves experience our children’s reality, trapped in the chaos that the adults have created.
- (now rare) Lovemaking, flirtation.
- (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], lines 61–63:ſet them downe, / For ſlottiſh ſpoyles of opportunitie; / And daughters of the game.
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:[H]e put spurs to his horse, and just in the twilight reached the gate, where, at that time, there happened to be two ladies of the game [translating mugeres moças], who being on their journey to Seville, with the carriers, had chanced to take up their night's lodging in this place.
- (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
- Synonym: line
When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
He's in the securities game somehow.
- (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 77, column 2:I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. The Game’s afoot:
1908, W B M Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.
- (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- Synonym: wargame
- (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
- Synonyms: scheme, racket
You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?
1902, George Saintsbury, Dryden, page 182:It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.
- (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
The forest has plenty of game.
1907, John Burroughs, Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, pages 5–6:I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh and keen, and the main motive of his visit to the Park at this time was to see and study in its semi-domesticated condition the great game which he had so often hunted during his ranch days; and he was kind enough to think it would be an additional pleasure to see it with a nature-lover like myself.
- (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.
1998, “She's Strange”, performed by Nate Dogg:She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain / She said yes to me when I ran my game
- (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
1998, “He Got Game”, performed by Public Enemy:What is game? Who got game? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I got game, she's got game / We got game, they got game, he got game
2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, →ISBN, page 123:In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!
2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 24:My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him.
- (uncountable, archaic) Diversion, entertainment.
1611, Joseph Hall, “Epistle VIII. To E.B. Dedicated to Sir George Goring.”, in Epistles , volume III, London: [William Stansby and William Jaggard] for Samuell Macham, , →OCLC, 5th decade, pages 95–96:To ſet the minde on the racke of long meditation (you ſay) is a torment: to follow the ſwift foote of your hound alday long, hath no wearineſſe: what would you ſay of him that finds better game in his ſtudie, then you in the fielde, and would account your diſport his puniſhment? ſuch there are, though you doubt and wonder.
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
playful activity that may be unstructured, amusement, pastime
- Afrikaans: spel (af)
- Albanian: lojë (sq) f
- Alviri-Vidari:
- Vidari: وازی (vāzzi)
- Amharic: ጨዋታ (č̣äwata)
- Arabic: لَعْب (ar) m (laʕb), لَعْبَة (ar) f (laʕba), لُعْبَة (ar) f (luʕba)
- Egyptian Arabic: لعبة m (liʕba)
- Hijazi Arabic: لعبة m (liʕba)
- Moroccan Arabic: لعبة f (luʕba), لعب m (laʕb)
- South Levantine Arabic: لعبة m (luʕba, loʕbe)
- Aragonese: chuego m
- Armenian: խաղ (hy) (xaġ)
- Aromanian: gioc n
- Assamese: খেল (khel)
- Asturian: xuegu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: oyun (az)
- Baluchi: لیب (layb), لعب (la'b)
- Bashkir: уйын (uyın)
- Belarusian: гу́льня f (húlʹnja), ігра́ f (ihrá)
- Bengali: খেলা (bn) (khela)
- Bulgarian: игра́ (bg) f (igrá)
- Burmese: အားကစား (my) (a:ka.ca:)
- Carpathian Rusyn: гра f (hra)
- Catalan: joc (ca) m
- Cebuano: dula
- Chechen: ловзам (lovzam)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 遊戲/游戏 (jau4 hei3)
- Eastern Min: 遊戲/游戏 (iù-hié)
- Hakka: 遊戲/游戏 (yù-hi)
- Hokkien: 遊戲/游戏 (iû-hì)
- Mandarin: 遊戲/游戏 (zh) (yóuxì)
- Wu: 遊戲/游戏 (6yeu-shi)
- Chukchi: увичвын (uvičvyn)
- Corsican: ghjocu (co) m
- Czech: hra (cs) f
- Danish: spil (da) n, parti (da) n, leg (da) c
- Dutch: spel (nl) n, spelleke n (Flemish)
- Esperanto: ludo
- Estonian: mäng
- Ewe: kɔɖiɖi n
- Extremaduran: juegu
- Faroese: leikur m
- Finnish: leikki (fi)
- French: jeu (fr) m
- Friulian: zûc m, ğûc m
- Gagauz: oyun
- Galician: xogo (gl) m
- Georgian: თამაში (tamaši)
- German: Spiel (de) n
- Greek: παιχνίδι (el) n (paichnídi)
- Guaraní: ñembosarái
- Guató: please add this translation if you can:
- Haitian Creole: jwèt
- Hebrew: מִשְׂחָק (he) m (miskhák)
- Hindi: खेल (hi) m (khel)
- Hungarian: játék (hu)
- Icelandic: leikur (is) m, spil (is) n, tafl (is) n
- Ido: ludo (io), ludajo
- Ilocano: ay-ayam
- Indonesian: permainan (id)
- Interlingua: joco
- Irish: cluiche (ga) m
- Italian: gioco (it) m
- Japanese: 遊び (ja) (あそび, asobi), 遊戯 (ja) (ゆうぎ, yūgi), ゲーム (ja) (gēmu), ごっこ (gokko)
- Javanese: gim (jv), dolanan (jv)
- Kapampangan: pialung
- Kazakh: ойын (oiyn)
- Khmer: ល្បែង (km) (lbaeng)
- Korean: 놀이 (ko) (nori), 게임 (ko) (geim)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: گەمە (ckb) (geme), یاری (ckb) (yarî), وازی (wazî), کایە (ckb) (kaye)
- Northern Kurdish: lîstik (ku), yarî (ku)
- Kyrgyz: ойноо (ky) (oynoo)
- Ladino: djogo, djugo
- Lao: ກິລາ (lo) (ki lā)
- Latin: lūdus (la) m
- Latvian: spēle (lv) f, miesla f (dated)
- Lithuanian: žaidimas m
- Luhya: kumwinya
- Macedonian: игра f (igra)
- Malay: permainan (ms)
- Malayalam: കളി (ml) (kaḷi)
- Maltese: logħba f
- Maori: whakaraka (one designed to improve dexterity), kēmu
- Marathi: खेळ (mr) m (kheḷ)
- Middle English: game
- Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭠𐭦𐭩𐭢 (ʿʾzyg /wāzīg/)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тоглоом (mn) (togloom)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: spill (no) n (a game with a winner), lek (no) m (a game without a winner)
- Occitan: jòc (oc)
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: игрь f (igrĭ)
- Old East Slavic: игра f (igra)
- Old Norse: leikr m
- Ottoman Turkish: اویون (oyun), لعبت (luʿbet)
- Pashto: لوبه (ps) f (loba), بازي f (bāzí)
- Persian: بازی (fa) (bâzi)
- Plautdietsch: Spell m
- Polabian: jågraićă f
- Polish: gra (pl) f, zabawa (pl) f
- Portuguese: jogo (pt) m
- Romanian: joc (ro) n
- Romansch: gieu m, giug m, gioi m, gi m, gö m
- Russian: игра́ (ru) f (igrá)
- Sanskrit: क्रीडा (sa) f (krīḍā)
- Scots: gemme
- Scottish Gaelic: geama m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ѝгра f
- Roman: ìgra (sh) f
- Sicilian: jocu (scn) m
- Slovak: hra (sk) f
- Slovene: igra (sl) f, tekma (sl) f (a sport)
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: graśe n
- Upper Sorbian: hra f
- Spanish: juego (es) m
- Old Spanish: juego, iuego
- Swahili: mchezo (sw)
- Swedish: spel (sv) n (a game with a winner), lek (sv) (a game without a winner)
- Tagalog: laro
- Tajik: бози (bozi)
- Tatar: уен (tt) (uyen), уйын (uyın)
- Telugu: ఆట (te) (āṭa)
- Thai: กีฬา (th) (gii-laa), เกม (th) (geem)
- Tibetan: རྩེད་མོ (rtsed mo)
- Turkish: oyun (tr)
- Turkmen: oýun
- Ukrainian: гра (uk) f (hra) / ігра́ f (ihrá)
- Urdu: کھیل m (khel)
- Uyghur: ئويۇن (oyun)
- Uzbek: oʻyin (uz)
- Vietnamese: trò chơi (vi)
- Vilamovian: śpejł
- Walloon: djeu (wa) m
- Welsh: gêm (cy)
- Yakut: оонньуу (oonnyuu)
- Yiddish: שפּיל f or n (shpil)
- Zazaki: khay
- Zhuang: guhcaemz
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activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment
particular instance of playing a game; match
- Afrikaans: wedstryd
- Arabic: لَعْب (ar) m (laʕb)
- Armenian: խաղ (hy) (xaġ)
- Bashkir: бәйге (bəyge)
- Bulgarian: мач (bg) m (mač)
- Catalan: joc (ca) m, partida (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 比賽/比赛 (zh) (bǐsài)
- Czech: utkání (cs) n, zápas (cs) m
- Dutch: wedstrijd (nl) m
- Esperanto: ludo
- Finnish: peli (fi), ottelu (fi)
- French: (entire encounter) partie (fr) f, (part of a match) jeu (fr) m, match (fr) m
- Georgian: თამაში (tamaši)
- German: Spiel (de) n
- Greek: παιχνίδι (el) n (paichnídi)
- Hebrew: מִשְׂחָק (he) m (mis'khak)
- Hungarian: játék (hu)
- Irish: cluiche (ga) m
- Italian: gioco (it) m
- Japanese: 体育 (ja) (たいいく, taiiku), 競技 (ja) (きょうぎ, kyōgi), 試合 (ja) (しあい, shiai)
- Javanese: gim (jv), tandhingan
- Khmer: កីឡា (km) (kəylaa)
- Korean: 경기(競技) (ko) (gyeonggi), 시합(試合) (ko) (sihap)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: یاری (ckb) (yarî)
- Latin: lūdus (la) m
- Latvian: spēle (lv)
- Lithuanian: rungtynės f pl
- Malayalam: കളി (ml) (kaḷi)
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Persian: بازی (fa) (bâzi)
- Plautdietsch: Spell m
- Polish: gra (pl) f
- Portuguese: jogo (pt)
- Russian: игра́ (ru) f (igrá), матч (ru) m (matč), соревнова́ние (ru) n (sorevnovánije), состяза́ние (ru) n (sostjazánije)
- Slovene: partija f, tekma (sl) f
- Spanish: partido (es) m
- Swedish: spel (sv) n, match (sv) c
- Tamil: விளையாட்டு (ta) (viḷaiyāṭṭu)
- Thai: กีฬา (th) (gii-laa)
- Vietnamese: thi đấu (vi)
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that which is gained, such as the stake in a game
number of points necessary to win a game
- Finnish: peli (fi) (mainly with "peli on (~ illative)")
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card games: point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum
equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title
field of an industry or profession
something that resembles a game with rules
exercise simulating warfare
wild animals hunted for food
- Afrikaans: wild (af)
- Arabic: طَرِيدَة f (ṭarīda)
- Armenian: երե (hy) (ere), որս (hy) (ors)
- Belarusian: дзічы́на f (dzičýna)
- Bulgarian: ди́веч (bg) m (díveč)
- Catalan: caça (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 獵物/猎物 (zh) (lièwù), 野味 (zh) (yěwèi)
- Czech: zvěř (cs) f
- Danish: vildt (da) n
- Dutch: wild (nl) n
- Estonian: jahiuluk, jahiloom
- Ewe: adelã
- Finnish: riista (fi)
- French: gibier (fr) m
- German: Wild (de) n
- Greek: κυνήγι (el) n (kynígi)
- Ancient: θήραμα n (thḗrama)
- Hungarian: vad (hu)
- Ido: vildo (io)
- Irish: géim m
- Italian: selvaggina (it) f, cacciagione (it) m
- Japanese: 獲物 (ja) (えもの, emono), ジビエ (jibie)
- Korean: 사냥감 (ko) (sanyanggam), 수렵물(狩獵物) (suryeommul), 어획물(漁獲物) (ko) (eohoengmul)
- Latvian: medījums m
- Macedonian: ди́веч m (díveč)
- Middle English: game
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: vilt n
- Nynorsk: vilt n
- Polish: dziczyzna (pl) f, zwierzyna łowna f
- Portuguese: caça (pt) f
- Romanian: vânat (ro)
- Russian: дичь (ru) f (dičʹ)
- Scottish Gaelic: sitheann f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ло̏вина f, ди̏вља̄ч f
- Roman: lȍvina (sh) f, dȉvljāč (sh) f
- Slovak: zver f
- Slovene: divjad f
- Spanish: caza (es) f, venación
- Swedish: vilt (sv) n, byte (sv) n, villebråd (sv) n
- Tibetan: རི་དྭགས (ri dwags)
- Turkish: av hayvanı (tr)
- Ukrainian: дичина́ f (dyčyná)
- Zazaki: qequbro
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ability to successfully seduce someone
mastery; the ability to excel at something
questionable, unethical, or illegal practice
Translations to be checked
Adjective
game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)
- (colloquial) Willing and able to participate.
- Synonyms: sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant
- Antonyms: cautious, disinclined
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 180:" […] But what’s this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?”
2016 February 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.
- (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
- Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
Translations
Verb
game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past and past participle gamed)
- (intransitive) To gamble.
- (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
2017 June 16, Joanna Walters, “Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction”, in The Guardian:“The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve been gaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing. […] ”
- (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
2012 August 31, Amanda Holpuch, “Trolls game Taylor Swift competition in favor of school for the hearing impaired”, in The Guardian:A large batch of online trolls have gamed a web contest that promises a Taylor Swift performance at any school in the US. The target? Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
2020 February 6, Alex Hern, quoting Natalie Hitchins, “Amazon Choice label is being 'gamed to promote poor products'”, in The Guardian:“Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easily gamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins.
2023 January 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, in RAIL, number 975, page 34:It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.
- (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
2005 October 6, “Picking up the pieces”, in The Economist:Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
2010, Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 100:A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
2010 July 9, Sheila McClear, “Would you date a pickup artist?”, in New York Post:How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off […] yet we somehow couldn’t.”
Derived terms
Translations
to defeat the rules in order to obtain a result
Etymology 2
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Adjective
game (comparative more game, superlative most game)
- (of a limb) Injured, lame.
1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Lost on Dress Parade”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC:You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."
1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 29:He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was so game that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.
See also
Anagrams
Chinese
Alternative forms
Etymology
From English game (Cheung, 2007, page 220).
Pronunciation
Noun
game
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) game (especially video games and online games) (Classifier: 隻/只 c)
Derived terms
References
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English game.
Noun
game m (plural games, diminutive gamepje n)
- A video game, an electronic game.
- Synonyms: videogame, videospel
Hyponyms
Related terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
game
- inflection of gamen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
- imperative
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English gamen, gomen, from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną, of disputed origin.
Alternative forms
- gamen, gemen, gomen, gome, gammen, gaume, gamme, gamin, gomin, gomyn, gomun, gam, geme
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡaːm(ə)/, /ˈɡam(ə)/, /ˈɡaːmən/, /ˈɡamən/
- (from OE gomen) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɔːmən/
- (Kent) IPA(key): /ˈɡɛːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɛːmən/
Noun
game (plural games or game)
- Entertainment or an instance of it; that which is enjoyable:
- A sport or other outdoor or physical activity.
- A game; a codified (and often competitive) form of entertainment.
- Sexual or romantic entertainment or activity (including intercourse in itself).
- An amusing, joking, or humorous activity or event.
- Any kind of event or occurrence; something that happens:
- An endeavour; a set of actions towards a goal.
- Any kind of activity having competition or rivalry.
- The state of being happy or joyful.
- Game; wild animals hunted for food.
- (rare) One's quarry; that which one is trying to catch.
- (rare) Gamesmanship; gaming behaviour.
- (rare) The reward for winning a game.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
From Old English gæmnian, gamnian, gamenian.
Verb
game
- Alternative form of gamen
Portuguese
Etymology 1
Unadapted borrowing from English game.
Pronunciation
Noun
game m (plural games)
- (Brazil) electronic game (game played on an electronic device, such as a computer game, a video game or the like)
- Synonyms: videojogo, jogo
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:game.
See also
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃mi
- Hyphenation: ga‧me
Verb
game
- inflection of gamar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Noun
game m (plural games)
- (tennis) game
Swedish
Etymology
Borrowed from English game. Attested since 1900.
Pronunciation
Noun
game n
- (tennis, squash) game
- (slang) game (ability to seduce someone)
- Synonym: rizz
Declension
Derived terms
References
Vietnamese
Etymology
English game
Pronunciation
Noun
game
- (video games) Synonym of trò chơi điện tử (“a video game”)
See also