Word Finder - game

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A playful or competitive activity.

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A video game.

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(nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

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He's in the securities game somehow.

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Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

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In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.

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

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Wild animals hunted for food.

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The forest has plenty of game.

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(used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

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

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Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

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A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

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

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To gamble.

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To play card games, board games, or video games.

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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.

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

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(of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

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Willing to participate.

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

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Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

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Injured, lame (of a limb).

It's a game, like a treasure hunt.

He smiled to himself, enjoying the game they always played.

Sofia waited, staring blankly at the football game on TV.

And so we will keep the game going till it is time for school to be dismissed.

She finished her game of patience and only then examined the presents.

Evelyn loved his game face.

Frustration finally drove the couple to play the game the same way—contact no one, put your head in the sand, and hope everyone leaves you alone and forgets you exist.

No one will play the game if the rules only apply to one team. 2.

Would you like to play a game?

The game had begun.

But already a change is taking place, owing, not to an increased humanity, but to an increased scarcity of game, for perhaps the hunter is the greatest friend of the animals hunted, not excepting the Humane Society.

State game officials are involved as well.

Deidre clenched her fists, uncertain what game the deity played with her.

There were about twenty-five thousand people at the game, and, when we went out, the noise was so terrific, we nearly jumped out of our skins, thinking it was the din of war, and not of a football game that we heard.

It wasn't a game to me.

Want to play a game?

All he needed was to figure out how to win a game of strategy he didn.t know how to play, before his time was up and he lost the only thing that mattered.

The children thought the new game was very funny.

Well, maybe I should call a game warden.

She frowned, wondering when someone would explain the rules of this game to her.

His favorite occupation when not playing boston, a card game he was very fond of, was that of listener, especially when he succeeded in setting two loquacious talkers at one another.

How much more complex than this is the game of war, which occurs under certain limits of time, and where it is not one will that manipulates lifeless objects, but everything results from innumerable conflicts of various wills!

It's like a chess game, and the humans are pawns to be used and destroyed, he explained.

Pierre was unfazed by his raised voice and continued playing a game on his phone.

There were a great many things she'd let him do to her to win the game in her head.

His game isn't the one you think he's playing.

We play a little game which I find most useful in developing the intellect, and which incidentally answers the purpose of a language lesson.

It was a pretty game, played on the smooth surface of the pond, a man against a loon.

The game continued; a waiter kept handing round champagne.

Pierre changed places several times during the game, sitting now with his back to Natasha and now facing her, but during the whole of the six rubbers he watched her and his friend.

A good chessplayer having lost a game is sincerely convinced that his loss resulted from a mistake he made and looks for that mistake in the opening, but forgets that at each stage of the game there were similar mistakes and that none of his moves were perfect.

He took a pack of cards that lay on the table and began to lay them out for a game of patience.

Later, when I talked to the FBI, they mentioned this turkey we're chasing plays the switch game with plates all the time.

The wing housed an indoor basketball court, indoor pool, a small game room, and a huge theatre room where music blared from some action movie.

Cynthia asked, cutting the game short as Mrs. Lincoln leaped into her lap, purring like a buzz saw.

Sex is a whole different ball game when it's not my idea.

He knew who I was when we first talked at the basketball game, but it was years later he told me about it.

Martha lugged out a tattered game of Monopoly.

I'll send you this video game I'm addicted to, Jule offered.

Imagine, he's even considering playing this game, and in some foreign country!

She clung to one of the warriors, attempting to climb him as the cat-like critter-- convinced it was a game-- wagged its tail and chased her around the large man in the center of the room.

To her surprise, what appeared to be a video game popped into 3D life in the center of the table.

The video game showed two holograms at once, a space battle and a land battle.

I am not going to play this game.

Oh, is that the game we were playing?

When we first played this game two or three days ago, she showed no ingenuity at all in finding the object.

At first it was still a game.

This is your game.

Dean was sure that, deep down, she thought whacking at a ball or chasing one someone else clobbered was an extended children's game and certainly not a worthwhile profession.

We met at a school basketball game.