Meaning

4 senses
  1. (intransitive)To gamble.

  2. (intransitive)To play card games, board games, or video games.

    zocken

  3. (transitive)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.

  4. (slang, transitive)To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

More definitions
  • place a bet on

Examples

3797 sentences
  1. What time will the game start?

    О котрій годині розпочнеться матч?

    ruКогда начнётся состязание?

    deWann beginnt das Spiel?

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  2. What time does the game start?

    О котрій годині розпочнеться матч?

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  3. I'm afraid we'll lose the game.

    Боюся, ми програємо цю гру.

    ruБоюсь, мы проиграем.

    deIch fürchte, wir werden das Spiel verlieren.

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  4. I have no time for games.

    Не маю часу на ігри.

    ruУ меня нет времени на игры.

    deIch habe keine Zeit für Spielchen.

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  5. Tom loves playing old computer games.

    Том обожнює грати у старі комп'ютерні ігри.

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Translations

4 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to play games:

Origin

From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pasti

From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).

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Forms

games, gaming, gamed, gamed
Base formgame · to game
3rd person singulargames
Present participlegaming
Past simplegamed
Past participlegamed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygame
he, she, itgames

Past simpleLesson

all personsgamed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave gamed
he, she, ithas gamed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill game

Phrasal verbs

3 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

5 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedgaming
Derivedgamer

Collocations

12 patterns
  • baseball game
  • video games
  • play this game
  • game on tv
  • play video games
  • the baseball game
  • win the game
  • the game was
  • game of chess
  • watch the game
  • playing games
  • playing video games

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
game — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto