game > define

A contest with rules to determine a winner.
- usage: "you need four people to play this game"
A single play of a sport or other contest.
- usage: "the game lasted two hours"
An amusement or pastime.
- usage: "they played word games"; "he thought of his painting as a game that filled his empty time"; "his life was all fun and games"
Animal hunted for food or sport.
Tennis) a division of play during which one player serves. (
Games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win. (
- usage: "the game is 6 all"; "he is serving for the game"
The flesh of wild animals that is used for food.
A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal. )
- usage: "they concocted a plot to discredit the governor"; "I saw through his little game from the start"
- synonyms: plot, secret plan
The game equipment needed in order to play a particular game.
- usage: "the child received several games for his birthday"
Your occupation or line of work.
- usage: "he's in the plumbing game"; "she's in show biz"
- synonyms: biz
Frivolous or trifling behavior.
- usage: "for actors, memorizing lines is no game"; "for him, life is all fun and games"

Place a bet on.
- usage: "Which horse are you backing"; "I'm betting on the new horse"
- synonyms: bet on, back, gage, stake, punt

Disabled in the feet or legs.
- usage: "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg"
- synonyms: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy
Willing to face danger.
- synonyms: gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky

(n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
(v.i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for or served at, table.
(v.i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
(a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game or to the act or practice of hunting.
(v.i.) 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.
(v.i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
(v.i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
(n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
(a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
(n.) 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.
(v.i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
(n.) To play at any sport or diversion.
(v.i.) 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.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary