Game

From Fresh Dictionary

Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Noun 1.2.1 Translations 1.3 Adjective 1.3.1 Translations 1.4 Transitive verb 1.4.1 Translations 1.5 Anagrams 1.6 Derived terms 1.7 See also

English

Pronunciation

• AHD: /gām/
• IPA: /É¡eɪm/
• SAMPA: /geIm/

Noun

game (countable and uncountable; plural games)

1. (countable) A pursuit or activity with rules performed either alone or with others, for the purpose of entertainment.

   Shall we play a game?

2. (in plural games) Sport played in a lesson at school.
3. (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.

   The forest has plenty of game.

Translations

pursuit or activity for entertainment

Dutch: spel n Estonian: mäng Finnish: peli, leikki French: jeu m German: Spiel n Hungarian: játék m Ido: ludo, ludajo Interlingua: joco Italian: gioco m

Japanese: 遊び (あそび, asobi), 遊戯 (yūgi)，ゲーム (ge-mu) Marathi: khel m Polish: gra f Portuguese: jogo m Romanian: joc n Russian: игра "f" Slovene: igra f, (a sport) tekma f Spanish: juego m Swedish: spel n (a game with a winner), lek (a game without a winner)

sport played in a lesson at school

wild animals hunted for food

Dutch: wild n Finnish: riista, suurriista German: Wild n Hungarian: vad Italian: selvaggina f

Polish: zwierzyna f Slovene: divjačina f

Adjective

game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)

1. Willing to participate. (No comparative or superlative.)

   I'm game, would you like to tell me how [to do that]? - From the computer game Adventure.

2. Having the slightly unpleasant taste of game (hunted wildlife.)

Translations

willing to participate

taste of wildlife

Transitive verb

to game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past gamed, past participle gamed)

1. To gamble.
2. To play games and be a gamer.
3. To use a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the rules in effect, usually to obtain obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

   We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.

Translations

to gamble See gamble

to defeat the rules in order to obtain a result

Anagrams

• mage

Derived terms

board game card game computer game drinking game endgame gamecock gamely game of chance game on game over game plan gameplay gamesmanship

gamer game show game theory gamey, gamy guessing game mind game on the game parlour game party game role-playing game video game war game word game

See also

• play

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