gameplaying

English

Etymology

From game +‎ playing.

Noun

gameplaying (uncountable)

1. The playing of games.
2. The act of playing the game, playing along, doing what is expected.
   • 1981 December 5, David L. Cawley, “Those Were The Days”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 14:

     Privilege is a smokescreen, the carrot on the stick to the donkey. The cold hard fact is that no amount of game-playing will ever make us acceptable to non-gays.

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• gameplayer