gaming

See also: Gaming

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

gaming

1. present participle of game

Noun

gaming (countable and uncountable, plural gamings)

1. The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.
   • Philip Schaff

     […] 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. Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

Derived terms

• gaming attendant
• gaming purse
• gaming the system
• pre-gaming

Anagrams

• gigman

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Cebuano

Etymology

gamay +‎ -ing

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ga‧ming

Verb

gaming

1. to shrink in size or quantity

Adjective

gaming

1. small, little