Joshua: Shall we play agame? David: ... Love to. How about Global Thermonuclear War? Joshua: Wouldn't you prefer a goodgame of chess? David: Later. Let's play Global Thermonuclear War. Joshua: Fine.
Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
(UK, in theplural) A school subject during whichsports are practised.
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2019 мај 8, Jon Bailes, “Save yourself! The video games casting us as helpless children”, inThe Guardian[1]:
There’s a sense here, as well as ingames such as Limbo, that we’re making ourselves experience our children’s reality, trapped in the chaos that the adults have created.
1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated byTobias 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 thegame:Шаблон:transterm, who being on their journey to Seville, with the carriers, had chanced to take up their night's lodging in this place.
Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new greatgame is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.
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 greatgame 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.
What is game? Who gotgame? / Where's the game in life, behind the game behind the game / I gotgame, she's gotgame / We gotgame, they gotgame, he gotgame
2005, Kermit Ernest Campbell,Gettin' Our Groove on: Rhetoric, Language, and Literacy for the Hip Hop Generation,→ISBN, page123:
In the contemporary arts of the academic contact zone, I say African American studentsgot game!
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 admirablygame Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.
(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
an impressive protest againstgaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence
2017 јун 16, Joanna Walters, “Inside the rehab saving young men from their internet addiction”, inThe Guardian[3]:
“The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve beengaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing.[…]”
(transitive) To exploitloopholes in asystem orbureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
2012 август 31, Amanda Holpuch, “Trolls game Taylor Swift competition in favor of school for the hearing impaired”, inThe Guardian[4]:
A large batch of online trolls havegamed 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.
2020 фебруар 6, Alex Hern, quoting Natalie Hitchins, “Amazon Choice label is being 'gamed to promote poor products'”, inThe Guardian[5]:
“Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easilygamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins.
2023 јануар 25, Christian Wolmar, “An informative cab ride on the state of the railway”, inRAIL, number975, page34:
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.
2005 октобар 6, “Picking up the pieces”, inThe Economist[6]:
Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himselfgaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
2010, Mystery,The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction, Villard Books,→ISBN,page100:
A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way,gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
2010 јул 9, Sheila McClear, “Would you date a pickup artist?”, inNew York Post[7]:
How did Amanda know she wasn’t gettinggamed? 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.”
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 sogame that, some way, I didn’t want to give him more than he needed.
