Noun

game (countable and uncountable, plural games)Категорија:Енглески именице#GAMEКатегорија:Енглески uncountable nouns#GAMEКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAMEКатегорија:Енглески уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME

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

      Синоними: amusement, diversion, entertainment, festivity, frolic, fun, gaiety, gambol, lark, merriment, merrymaking, pastime, play, prank, recreation, sport, spree

      Антоними: drudgery, work, toil

      Being a child is all fun and games.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

   2. (countableКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAME) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

      Синоним: Thesaurus:game

      • 1983, Lawrence Lasker et al., WarGames:

        Joshua: Shall we play a game?
        David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War?
        Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a good game of chess?
        David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War.
        Joshua: Fine.

        Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

      Games in the classroom can make learning fun.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

   3. (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
      • Шаблон:RQ:Fry Liar
   4. (countableКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAME) A particular instance of playing a game.

      Синоним: match

      Sally won the game.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

      They can turn the game around in the second half.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

      • Шаблон:RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein
   5. That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
   6. The number of points necessary to win a game.

      In short whist, five points are game.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

      See also: for the win

   7. (card gamesКатегорија:en:Card games#GAME) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
   8. (countableКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAME) 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.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

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

      Study can help your game of chess.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

      Hit the gym if you want to toughen up your game.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

      • Шаблон:RQ:Salinger Catcher
   10. (countableКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAME) Script error: The function "show_from" does not exist. video game.Категорија:Енглески ellipses#GAME
       • 2019 мај 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, in The Guardian‎:

         There’s a sense here, as well as in games such as Limbo, that we’re making ourselves experience our children’s reality, trapped in the chaos that the adults have created.

         Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

4. (now rareКатегорија:Енглески terms with rare senses#GAME) Lovemaking, flirtation.
6. (slangКатегорија:Енглески slang#GAME) Шаблон:1. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
   • Шаблон:RQ:Shakespeare Troilus and Cressida
   • 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, I.2:

     [H]e put spurs to his horse, and just in the twilight reached the gate, where, at that time, there happened to be two ladies of the game :Шаблон:transterm, who being on their journey to Seville, with the carriers, had chanced to take up their night's lodging in this place.

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

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8. (countableКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAME, informalКатегорија:Енглески informal terms#GAME, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

   Синоним: line

   When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.

   Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

   He's in the securities game somehow.

   Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

10. (countableКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAME, figurative) 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.

    Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

    • 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 77, column 2:

      I ſee you ſtand like Grey-hounds in the ſlips, / Straying vpon the Start. The Game’s afoot:

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

    • Шаблон:RQ:Ferguson Zollenstein
    • 2013 јул 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:

      Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

12. (countableКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAME, militaryКатегорија:en:Military#GAME) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

    Синоним: wargame

14. (countableКатегорија:Енглески countable nouns#GAME) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.

    Синоними: scheme, racket

    You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?

    Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

    • 1845, Blackwood Magazine:

      Your murderous game is nearly up.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

    • 1902, George Saintsbury, Dryden, page 182:

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

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

16. (uncountableКатегорија:Енглески uncountable nouns#GAME) Wild animals hunted for food.

    The forest has plenty of game.

    Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

    • 1907, John Burroughs, Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt‎, Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, pages 5–6:

      I had known the President several years before he became famous, and we had had some correspondence on subjects of natural history. His interest in such themes is always very fresh and keen, and the main motive of his visit to the Park at this time was to see and study in its semi-domesticated condition the great game which he had so often hunted during his ranch days; and he was kind enough to think it would be an additional pleasure to see it with a nature-lover like myself.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

18. (uncountableКатегорија:Енглески uncountable nouns#GAME, informalКатегорија:Енглески informal terms#GAME, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

    He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.

    Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

    • 1998, “She's Strange”, performed by Nate Dogg:

      She's strange, so strange, but I didn't complain / She said yes to me when I ran my game

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

20. (uncountableКатегорија:Енглески uncountable nouns#GAME, slangКатегорија:Енглески slang#GAME) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
    • 1998, “He Got Game”, performed by Public Enemy:

      What is game? Who got game? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I got game, she's got game / We got game, they got game, he got game

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

    • 2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell, Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation, →ISBN, page 123:

      In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American students got game!

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

    • 2009, Michael Marshall, Bad Things, →ISBN, page 24:

      My dad had game at that kind of thing, and I spent long periods as a child watching him.

      Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

21. (uncountableКатегорија:Енглески uncountable nouns#GAME, archaicКатегорија:Енглески terms with archaic senses#GAME) Diversion, entertainment.
    • Шаблон:RQ:Hall Epistles

Adjective

game (comparative gamer, superlative gamest)Категорија:Енглески придеви#GAMEКатегорија:Енглески уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME

1. (colloquialКатегорија:Енглески colloquialisms#GAME) Willing and able to participate.

   Синоними: sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant

   Антоними: cautious, disinclined

   • Шаблон:RQ:Melville Moby-Dick
   • 2016 фебруар 23, Robbie Collin, “Grimsby review: ' Sacha Baron Cohen's vital, venomous action movie'”, in The Daily Telegraph (London):

     Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

2. (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
3. Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Verb

game (third-person singular simple present games, present participle gaming, simple past and past participle gamed)Категорија:Енглески глаголи#GAMEКатегорија:Енглески уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME

1. (intransitiveКатегорија:Енглески intransitive verbs#GAME) To gamble.
   • 1898, “George Washington: Statesman, Christian Gentleman”, in Suggestive programs for special day exercises:

     an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

2. (intransitiveКатегорија:Енглески intransitive verbs#GAME) To play card games, board games, or video games.
   • 2017 јун 16, Joanna Walters, “Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction”, in The Guardian‎:

     “The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve been gaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing. […] ”

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

3. (transitiveКатегорија:Енглески transitive verbs#GAME) 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.Категорија:Енглески terms with usage examples#GAME

   • 2012 август 31, Amanda Holpuch, “Trolls game Taylor Swift competition in favor of school for the hearing impaired”, in The Guardian‎:

     A large batch of online trolls have gamed a web contest that promises a Taylor Swift performance at any school in the US. The target? Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

   • 2020 фебруар 6, Alex Hern, quoting Natalie Hitchins, “Amazon Choice label is being 'gamed to promote poor products'”, in The Guardian‎:

     “Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easily gamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins.

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

   • 2023 јануар 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, in RAIL, number 975, page 34:

     It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

4. (transitiveКатегорија:Енглески transitive verbs#GAME, seduction communityКатегорија:en:Seduction community#GAME, slangКатегорија:Енглески slang#GAME, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
   • 2005 октобар 6, “Picking up the pieces”, in The Economist‎:

     Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

   • 2010, Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books, →ISBN, page 100:

     A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

   • 2010 јул 9, Sheila McClear, “Would you date a pickup artist?”, in New York Post‎:

     How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off […] yet we somehow couldn’t.”

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

Adjective

game (comparative more game, superlative most game)Категорија:Енглески придеви#GAMEКатегорија:Енглески уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME

1. (of a limb) Injured, lame.
   • Шаблон:RQ:Henry Four Million
   • 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 29:

     He was done for, all right. I took out my six-shooter and aimed right between his eyes. He kicked once, sort of leaped—or tried to, and then lay still. I stood there a minute, to see if he had to have another. He was so game that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.

     Категорија:Енглески terms with наводs#GAME

Derived terms

Noun

game m (plural games, diminutive gamepje n)Категорија:Холандски именице#GAMEКатегорија:Dutch nouns with plural in -s#GAMEКатегорија:Холандски уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME

1. A video game, an electronic game.

   Синоними: videogame, videospel

Verb

gameКатегорија:Холандски verb form#GAMEКатегорија:Холандски уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME

1. inflection of gamen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
   3. imperative

Alternative forms

• gamen, gemen, gomen, gome, gammen, gaume, gamme, gamin, gomin, gomyn, gomun, gam, geme

Pronunciation

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈɡaːm(ə)/, /ˈɡam(ə)/, /ˈɡaːmən/, /ˈɡamən/Категорија:Средњи Енглески термини са ИПА изговором#GAME
• (from OE gomen) МФА^(кључ): /ˈɡɔːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɔːmən/Категорија:Средњи Енглески термини са ИПА изговором#GAME
• (Kent) МФА^(кључ): /ˈɡɛːm(ə)/, /ˈɡɛːmən/Категорија:Средњи Енглески термини са ИПА изговором#GAME

Noun

gameКатегорија:Средњи Енглески именице#GAMEКатегорија:Средњи Енглески уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME (plural games or game)

1. Entertainment or an instance of it; that which is enjoyable:
   1. A sport or other outdoor or physical activity.
   2. A game; a codified (and often competitive) form of entertainment.
   3. Sexual or romantic entertainment or activity (including intercourse in itself).
   4. An amusing, joking, or humorous activity or event.
2. Any kind of event or occurrence; something that happens:
   1. An endeavour; a set of actions towards a goal.
   2. Any kind of activity having competition or rivalry.
3. The state of being happy or joyful.
4. Game; wild animals hunted for food.
5. (rareКатегорија:Средњи Енглески terms with rare senses#GAME) One's quarry; that which one is trying to catch.
6. (rareКатегорија:Средњи Енглески terms with rare senses#GAME) Gamesmanship; gaming behaviour.
7. (rareКатегорија:Средњи Енглески terms with rare senses#GAME) The reward for winning a game.

Verb

gameКатегорија:Средњи Енглески verb#GAMEКатегорија:Средњи Енглески уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME

1. Alternative form of gamen Категорија:enm:Emotions Категорија:enm:Entertainment Категорија:enm:Games Категорија:enm:Hunting Категорија:enm:Meats Категорија:enm:Sex Категорија:enm:Sports Категорија:Португалски говор

Pronunciation

• (BR) МФА^(кључ): /ˈɡejm/, /ˈɡej.mi/Категорија:Португалски 1-слог речи#GAMEКатегорија:Португалски 2-слог речи#GAMEКатегорија:Португалски термини са ИПА изговором#GAME

Noun

gameКатегорија:Португалски именице#GAMEКатегорија:Португалски terms with redundant head parameter#GAMEКатегорија:Португалски уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME m (plural games)

1. (Brazil) electronic game (game played on an electronic device, such as a computer game, a video game or the like)

   Синоними: videojogo, jogo

Pronunciation

• Риме: (Portugal) -ɐmɨ, (Brazil) -ɐ̃miКатегорија:Риме:Португалски/ɐmɨ#GAMEКатегорија:Риме:Португалски/ɐmɨ/2 слогова#GAMEКатегорија:Риме:Португалски/ɐ̃mi#GAMEКатегорија:Риме:Португалски/ɐ̃mi/2 слогова#GAME
• Хифенација: ga‧me

Verb

gameКатегорија:Португалски verb form#GAMEКатегорија:Португалски уноси са нетачним заглављем језика#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са 2 уноса#GAMEКатегорија:Стране са nonstandard language headings#GAME

1. Шаблон:pt-verb form of/error of gamar Категорија:pt:Video games#GAME Категорија:Шпански говор

Declension

Derived terms

• gammal i gamet