board game

See also: boardgame

English

Noun

board game (plural board games)

Any of many games of strategy or chance played on a specially designed board; often involves one or more players moving pieces and using dice or cards.

Hyponyms

backgammon
checkers, draughts
chess
Cluedo
go
Ludo
Monopoly
pachisi
Scrabble
Trivial Pursuit

Translations

game played on a board

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Catalan: joc de tauler m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 版圖遊戲／版图游戏 (bǎntú yóuxì), 圖版遊戲／图版游戏 (túbǎn yóuxì), 紙盤遊戲／纸盘游戏 (zhǐpán yóuxì), 棋盤遊戲／棋盘游戏 (qípán yóuxì), 紙上遊戲／纸上游戏 (zhǐshàng yóuxì), 桌面遊戲／桌面游戏 (zhuōmiàn yóuxì), 棋類遊戲／棋类游戏 (qílèi yóuxì), 桌遊／桌游 (zh) (zhuōyóu) (colloquial)
Czech: desková hra f
Danish: brætspil (da) n
Dutch: bordspel (nl) n
Esperanto: tabulludo
Estonian: lauamäng
Finnish: lautapeli (fi)
French: jeu de société (fr) m
German: Brettspiel (de) n
Greek: επιτραπέζιο (el) (epitrapézio), επιτραπέζιο παιχνίδι (el) (epitrapézio paichnídi)
Hungarian: társasjáték (hu)
Icelandic: borðspil n
Italian: gioco da tavolo m
Japanese: ボードゲーム (ja) (bōdo gēmu)
Kazakh: үстел ойыны (üstel oiyny)
Khmer: ល្បែងក្ដារ (lbaeng kdar)
Korean: 보드게임 (ko) (bodeugeim)
Kyrgyz: стол оюну (ky) f (stol oyunu)
Latvian: galda spēle f
Luxembourgish: Brietspill n
Nahuatl: huapalpatolli
Norwegian:
Bokmål: brettspill n, brettspell n
Nynorsk: brettspel n
Polish: gra planszowa f, planszówka f (informal)
Portuguese: jogo de tabuleiro m
Romanian: joc pe tablă n, joc de tablă n, joc de societate (ro) n
Russian: насто́льная игра́ (ru) f (nastólʹnaja igrá)
Scots: buird gemme
Spanish: juego de mesa m
Swahili: bao (sw)
Swedish: brädspel (sv) n
Thai: เกมกระดาน
Turkish: masa oyunu
Welsh: gêm fwrdd f

Anagrams

game board, gameboard