Definitions for gaming

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gaming gam·ing

Spelling: [gey-ming]

IPA: /ˈgeɪ mɪŋ/

Gaming is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in gaming (aggimn).

Definitions for gaming

noun

1. gambling.
2. the playing of games developed to teach something or to help solve a problem, as in a military or business situation.
3. the playing of computer or video games.
4. an amusement or pastime:
5. the material or equipment used in playing certain games:
6. 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.
7. a single occasion of such an activity, or a definite portion of one:
8. the number of points required to win a game.
9. the score at a particular stage in a game:
10. a particular manner or style of playing a game:
11. anything resembling a game, as in requiring skill, endurance, or adherence to rules:
12. a trick or strategy:
13. fun; sport of any kind; joke:
14. wild animals, including birds and fishes, such as are hunted for food or taken for sport or profit.
15. the flesh of such wild animals or other game, used as food:
16. any object of pursuit, attack, abuse, etc.:
17. Informal. a business or profession:
18. 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 gaming

First recorded in 1495-1505; game¹ + -ing¹

Examples for gaming

Women like (gaming blogger Anita Sarkeesian) were threatened, doxxed, and driven from their homes.

Magic and gaming involve in-depth worlds that feature both male and female characters.

gaming relieved me from that insuperable listlessness by which I was oppressed.

Both parties are now equal opportunity offenders when it comes to gaming the system.

Desert Golfing is the gaming equivalent of putting TV on in the background.

Somebody over at those gaming tables will be able to identify me.

I should have been sadly boared in this dull place if it had not been for gaming.

The lure and addiction of gaming—which went back to pinball, of course—became a sensation with Asteroids.

His book had dissipated his professional energies, and he had even taken to gaming.

But by degrees he was once more ensnared by the lure of the gaming table.