gaming
See also: Gaming
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Audio (UK) (file)
Verb
gaming
- present participle of game
Noun
gaming (countable and uncountable, plural gamings)
- The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.
- 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
- […] 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 […]
- 2013 June 28, Tom Vanderbilt, “The lose-lose logic of the machine zone”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 29:
- 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".
- Ellipsis of videogaming.
- Synonym of gambling
- 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
- Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.
Derived terms
- casual gaming
- gaming attendant
- gaming board
- gaming center
- gaming chair
- gaming console
- gaming house
- gaming machine
- gaming purse
- heated gaming moment
- non-gaming
- pre-gaming
- retro-gaming
- retro gaming
- video gaming
Anagrams
- gigman
Cebuano
Etymology
gamay + -ing
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ga‧ming
Verb
gaming
- to shrink in size or quantity
Adjective
gaming
- small, little
Spanish
Noun
gaming m (uncountable)
- gaming (video gaming)