gaming

See also: Gaming

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ

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Verb

gaming

1. present participle and gerund of game

Noun

The fairy light spectacle turns this tree into a gaming Christmas tree (sense 1.1.1).

gaming (usually uncountable, plural gamings)

2. The playing of a game.
   • 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".

   2. Ellipsis of videogaming.
      2. (Internet slang) Used in noun compounds to describe anything that is decorated in rainbow colors, in a parody of LED-equipped peripherals marketed as "gaming mice", etc.
   4. Synonym of gambling.
4. Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

Derived terms

• antigaming
• archaeogaming
• back-seat gaming
• board gaming
• casual gaming
• cybergaming
• exergaming
• gaming attendant
• gaming board
• gaming center
• gaming chair
• gaming computer
• gaming console
• gaming disorder
• gaming house
• gaming machine
• gaming pants
• gaming purse
• gaming table
• heated gaming moment
• iGaming
• Internet gaming disorder
• metagaming
• neurogaming
• nongaming
• non-gaming
• pre-gaming
• retro gaming
• retro-gaming
• retrogaming
• telegaming
• video gaming
• wargaming

Related terms

• gamifying

Descendants

• → Russian: ге́йминг (géjming)

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: jugación f, jugamiento m

See also

• game theory
• game the system
• play games

Anagrams

• gigman

Cebuano

Etymology

From gamay + -ing.

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ga‧ming

Verb

gaming

1. to shrink in size or quantity

Adjective

gaming

1. small, little

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gaming.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeimin/ [ˈɡei̯.mĩn]
• Rhymes: -eimin
• Syllabification: ga‧ming

Noun

gaming m (uncountable)

1. gaming (video gaming)