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Game

An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime
Party games.
Word games.

Gare

Coarse wool on the legs of sheep

Game

A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules
The game of basketball.
The game of gin rummy.

Gare

Coarse wool on the legs of sheep.

Game

A single instance of such an activity
We lost the first game.
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Game

Games An organized athletic program or contest
Track-and-field games.
Took part in the winter games.

Game

A period of competition or challenge
It was too late in the game to change the schedule of the project.

Game

The total number of points required to win a game
One hundred points is game in bridge.

Game

The score accumulated at any given time in a game
The game is now 14 to 12.

Game

The equipment needed for playing certain games
Packed the children's games in the car.
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Game

A particular style or manner of playing a game
Improved my tennis game with practice.

Game

An active interest or pursuit, especially one involving competitive engagement or adherence to rules
"the way the system operates, the access game, the turf game, the image game" (Hedrick Smith).

Game

A business or occupation; a line
The insurance game.

Game

An illegal activity; a racket.

Game

Evasive, trifling, or manipulative behavior
Wanted a straight answer, not more of their tiresome games.

Game

A calculated strategy or approach; a scheme
I saw through their game from the very beginning.

Game

(Mathematics) A model of a competitive situation that identifies interested parties and stipulates rules governing all aspects of the competition, used in game theory to determine the optimal course of action for an interested party.

Game

Wild animals hunted for food or sport.

Game

The flesh of these animals, eaten as food.

Game

An object of attack, ridicule, or pursuit
The press considered the candidate's indiscretions to be game.

Game

Mockery; sport
The older children teased and made game of the newcomer.

Game

To manipulate dishonestly for personal gain; rig
Executives who gamed the system to get huge payoffs.

Game

To play for stakes; gamble.

Game

To play a role-playing or computer game.

Game

Plucky and unyielding in spirit; resolute
She put up a game fight against her detractors.

Game

Ready and willing
Are you game for a swim?.

Game

Crippled; lame
A game leg.

Game

A playful or competitive activity.

Game

A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
Being a child is all fun and games.

Game

(countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
Games in the classroom can make learning fun.

Game

A school subject during which sports are practised.

Game

(countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
Sally won the game.
They can turn the game around in the second half.

Game

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

Game

The number of points necessary to win a game.
In short whist, five points are game.

Game

(card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.

Game

(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.

Game

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.

Game

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Game

Lovemaking, flirtation.

Game

(slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)

Game

A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
He's in the securities game somehow.

Game

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.

Game

An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

Game

(uncountable) wild animals hunted for food.
The forest has plenty of game.

Game

The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.

Game

Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

Game

(countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?

Game

(colloquial) Willing and able to participate.

Game

(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

Game

Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Game

Injured, lame (of a limb).

Game

(intransitive) To gamble.

Game

(intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.

Game

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

Game

To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Game

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

Game

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.

Game

Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.

Game

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

Game

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.

Game

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.

Game

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.

Game

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

Game

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

Game

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.

Game

To rejoice; to be pleased; - often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
God loved he best with all his whole hearteAt alle times, though him gamed or smarte.

Game

To play at any sport or diversion.

Game

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 some other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

Game

A single play of a game;
The game lasted 2 hours

Game

A contest with rules to determine a winner;
You need four people to play this game

Game

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

Animal hunted for food or sport

Game

The game equipment needed to play a game;
The child received several games for his birthday

Game

Your occupation or line of work;
He's in the plumbing game
She's in show biz

Game

(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

The flesh of wild animals that is used for food

Game

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

Frivolous or trifling behavior;
For actors, memorizing lines is no game
For him, life is all fun and games

Game

Place a bet on;
Which horse are you backing?
I'm betting on the new horse

Game

Disabled in the feet or legs;
A crippled soldier
A game leg

Game

Willing to face danger

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