Meaning of game | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A playful or competitive activity.
   countable, uncountable
2. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
   countable, uncountable
3. A playful or competitive activity. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime
4. An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
   countable
5. To manipulate dishonestly for personal gain; rig: executives who gamed the system to get huge payoffs.
6. A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime
7. A school subject during which sports are practised.
   UK, countable, in-plural, uncountable
8. In a position of advantage; winning or succeeding.
9. An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal
10. A particular instance of playing a game.
    countable
11. To play a sport with great skill.
12. A school subject during which sports are practised
13. That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
    countable, uncountable
14. The only one of its kind available: "He's the only game in town for the press to write about" (Leonard Garment).
15. A particular instance of playing a game
16. The number of points necessary to win a game.
    countable, uncountable
17. Crippled; lame: a game leg.
18. In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
    countable, uncountable
19. lame: a game leg.
20. The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
    countable
21. Won by the player or pair first scoring 21 points, unless both have scored 20 points, when the winner is the first to score two points more than the opposition.
22. One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
    countable, uncountable
23. Actions taken as a joke:fun, play, sport.
24. Ellipsis of video game.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis
25. To make a bet:bet, gamble, lay, play, wager.
26. A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
    countable, informal, singular, usually
27. brave; willing; ready. a game old guy; game for anything. gewillig شُجاع смел pronto statečný, odhodlaný entschlossen modig; villig; parat τολμηρός, πρόθυμοςvaliente; animoso; dispuesto, listo vapper, (millekski) valmis مشتاق و مصمم valmis prêt àמוכן निडर odvažan, pripravan bátor; mindenre kapható berani djarfur; fús coraggioso やる気のある 용기가 있는 drąsus, turintis noro drosmīgs; drošsirdīgs sanggup bereid, flinkmodig, villig, med på alt ochoczy, chętny راضي، خوښ، مايل، چمتو، تيار: رضا كار pronto ga...
28. The music industry.
    countable, informal, singular, uncountable, usually
29. Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
    countable, figuratively
30. An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
    countable
31. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
    countable
32. Wild animals hunted for food.
    uncountable
33. The ability to seduce or woo someone, usually by strategy.
    informal, uncountable
34. Lovemaking, flirtation.
    archaic, countable, uncountable
35. Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
    countable, slang, uncountable
36. Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
    slang, uncountable
37. Diversion, entertainment.
    archaic, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Being a child is all fun and games.”

“Games in the classroom can make learning fun.”

“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.”

“From time to time tracksuited boys ran past them, with all the deadly purpose and humourless concentration of those who enjoyed Games.”

“Sally won the game.”

“They can turn the game around in the second half.”

““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”.”

“In short whist, five points are game.”

“See also: for the win”

“Some of the games in the closet we have on the computer as well.”

“Study can help your game of chess.”

“Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.”

“He's in the securities game somehow.”

“The rapper bragged about how he ran the game.”

“In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.”

“I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. The Game’s afoot:”

“Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.”

“You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?”

“Your murderous game is nearly up.”

“It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.”

“The forest has plenty of game.”

“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.”

“He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.”

“She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain / She said yes to me when I ran my game”

“ſet them downe, / For ſlottiſh ſpoyles of opportunitie; / And daughters of the game.”

“[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.”

“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”

“In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!”

“My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him.”

“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.”

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