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gaming en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (uncountable, usually) The playing of a game.
    • The US gaming industry, in a pamphlet called Demystifying Slot Machines […], argues that "slot manufacturers need to build devices for a society with a decreasing attention span and an increasing demand for exciting, fast-paced entertainment, all in a marketplace overflowing with competing entertainment options". 2013 June 28, Tom Vanderbilt, “The lose-lose logic of the machine zone”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 29:
    • […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […] 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:
  2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, uncountable, usually) The playing of a game. ▸ Ellipsis of videogaming.
  3. (Internet, uncountable, usually) The playing of a game. ▸ Ellipsis of videogaming. ▸ Used in noun compounds to describe anything that is decorated in rainbow colors, in a parody of LED-equipped peripherals marketed as "gaming mice", etc.
  4. (uncountable, usually) The playing of a game. ▸ Synonym of gambling.
  5. (uncountable, usually) Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

Forms

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gamings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

gaming center · archaeogaming · cybergaming · gaming pants · retrogaming · casual gaming · retro gaming · gaming board · gaming machine · heated gaming moment · back-seat gaming · gaming purse · retro-gaming · gaming house · board gaming · gaming table · telegaming · gaming chair · gaming console · metagaming · gaming attendant · antigaming · neurogaming · non-gaming · gaming computer · nongaming · wargaming · pre-gaming · video gaming · exergaming

Descendants

ге́йминг

Relateds

game theory · play games · gamifying · game the system

Synonyms

gambling

Translations (2)

es jugamiento (Translations) · es jugación (Translations)

gaming en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of game
    form of game