GAME

game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky

(adjective) willing to face danger

crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game

(adjective) disabled in the feet or legs; “a crippled soldier”; “a game leg”

game

(noun) an amusement or pastime; “they played word games”; “he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time”; “his life was all fun and games”

game

(noun) a contest with rules to determine a winner; “you need four people to play this game”

game

(noun) a single play of a sport or other contest; “the game lasted two hours”

game

(noun) frivolous or trifling behavior; “for actors, memorizing lines is no game”; “for him, life is all fun and games”

game, biz

(noun) your occupation or line of work; “he’s in the plumbing game”; “she’s in show biz”

game

(noun) animal hunted for food or sport

game

(noun) the game equipment needed in order to play a particular game; “the child received several games for his birthday”

plot, secret plan, game

(noun) a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal); “they concocted a plot to discredit the governor”; “I saw through his little game from the start”

game

(noun) the flesh of wild animals that is used for food

game

(noun) (games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win; “the game is 6 all”; “he is serving for the game”

game

(noun) (tennis) a division of play during which one player serves

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

game (countable and uncountable, plural games)

A playful or competitive activity.

A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

(countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

(countable) A particular instance of playing a game; match.

That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.

The number of points necessary to win a game.

(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.

One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.

(obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.

(countable) A video game.

(countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

(countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

(countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

(uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.

(uncountable, informal, used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

(uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

(countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

Synonyms

• See also game

• (synonyms to be checked): pastime, play, recreation, frolic, sport, diversion, fun, amusement, merriment, festivity, entertainment, spree, prank, lark, gambol, merrymaking, gaiety

• (instance of gameplay): match

• (field of gainful activity): line

• (military): wargame

• (business or occupation): racket

• (questionable practices): racket

Antonyms

• (antonyms to be checked): drudgery, work, toil

Adjective

game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)

(colloquial) Willing to participate.

(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.

Injured, lame (of a limb).

Synonyms

• (willing to participate): sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant

Antonyms

• (willing to participate): cautious, disinclined

Verb

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

(intransitive) To gamble.

(intransitive) To play video games.

(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.

(transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Anagrams

• mage, mega, mega-

Source: Wiktionary

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Game, a. Etym: [Cf. W. cam crooked, and E. gambol, n.]

Definition: Crooked; lame; as, a game leg. [Colloq.]

Game, n. Etym: [OE. game, gamen, AS. gamen, gomen, play, sport; akin to OS., OHG., & Icel. gaman, Dan. gammen mirth, merriment, OSw. gamman joy. Cf. Gammon a game, Backgammon, Gamble v. i.]

1. Sport of any kind; jest, frolic. We have had pastimes here, and pleasant game. Shak.

2. A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc. But war's a game, which, were their subject wise, Kings would not play at. Cowper.

Note: Among the ancients, especially the Greeks and Romans, there were regularly recurring public exhibitions of strength, agility, and skill under the patronage of the government, usually accompanied with religious ceremonies. Such were the Olympic, the Pythian, the Nemean, and the Isthmian games.

3. The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards. Talk the game o'er between the deal. Lloyd.

4. That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.

5. (Card Playing)

Definition: In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.

6. A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project. Your murderous game is nearly up. Blackw. Mag. It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack. Saintsbury.

7. Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table. Those species of animals . . . distinguished from the rest by the well-known appellation of game. Blackstone. Confidence game. See under Confidence.

– To make game of, to make sport of; to mock. Milton.

Game, a.

1. Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky. I was game . . . .I felt that I could have fought even to the death. W. Irving.

2. Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting. Game bag, a sportsman's bag for carrying small game captured; also, the whole quantity of game taken.

– Game bird, any bird commonly shot for food, esp. grouse, partridges, quails, pheasants, wild turkeys, and the shore or wading birds, such as plovers, snipe, woodcock, curlew, and sandpipers. The term is sometimes arbitrarily restricted to birds hunted by sportsmen, with dogs and guns.

– Game egg, an egg producing a gamecock.

– Game laws, laws regulating the seasons and manner of taking game for food or for sport.

– Game preserver, a land owner who regulates the killing of game on his estate with a view to its increase. [Eng.] -- To be game. (a) To show a brave, unyielding spirit. (b) To be victor in a game. [Colloq.] -- To die game, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the last; to die fighting.

Game, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gaming.] Etym: [OE. gamen, game, to rejoice, AS. gamenian to play. See Game, n.]

1. To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative. [Obs.] God loved he best with all his whole hearte At alle times, though him gamed or smarte. Chaucer.

2. To play at any sport or diversion.

3. To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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