Definitions for games

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games game

Spelling: [geym]

IPA: /geɪm/

Games is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in games (aegms).

Definitions for games

noun

1. an amusement or pastime:
2. the material or equipment used in playing certain games:
3. a competitive activity involving skill, chance, or endurance on the part of two or more persons who play according to a set of rules, usually for their own amusement or for that of spectators.
4. a single occasion of such an activity, or a definite portion of one:
5. the number of points required to win a game.
6. the score at a particular stage in a game:
7. a particular manner or style of playing a game:
8. anything resembling a game, as in requiring skill, endurance, or adherence to rules:
9. a trick or strategy:
10. fun; sport of any kind; joke:
11. wild animals, including birds and fishes, such as are hunted for food or taken for sport or profit.
12. the flesh of such wild animals or other game, used as food:
13. any object of pursuit, attack, abuse, etc.:
14. Informal. a business or profession:
15. Archaic. fighting spirit; pluck.

Idioms

1. die game, to die after a brave struggle. to remain steadfast or in good spirits at the moment of defeat:
2. make game of, to make fun of; ridicule:
3. off (or on) one’s game, Sports. playing very badly (or very well). not functioning (or functioning) at one’s usual level:
4. play games, to act in an evasive, deceitful, manipulative, or trifling manner in dealing with others:
5. play the game, Informal. to act or play in accordance with the rules. to act honorably or justly:

adjective

1. pertaining to or composed of animals hunted or taken as game or to their flesh.
2. having a fighting spirit; plucky.
3. Informal. having the required spirit or will (often followed by for or an infinitive):

verb (used with object)

1. to squander in gaming (usually followed by away).
2. to manipulate to one's advantage, especially by trickery; attempt to take advantage of:

verb (used without object)

1. to play games of chance for stakes; gamble.
2. to play computer or video games.

Origin of games

before 1000; Middle English gamen, Old English gaman; cognate with Old High German gaman glee

Examples for games

During the past months they had been living here, training for the games.

These “free” games display ads, often in obnoxious places, in lieu of the entry fee.

All kinds o' games had been put up on him and he beat 'em all.

We add them to our games because we see other developers add them to their games.

Go outside with these children, and help them to some games.

No woman was allowed to enter Olympia, during the celebration of the games.

Forget those silly “games played with the ball”; they are far “too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.”

With other games, the guys would just assemble them and box them up, and that was that.

games of address are not to be put upon a footing with games of hazard.'

There are those who accuse their games of not really being video games at all, which is ludicrous.