video game

See also: videogame, video-game, vídeo-game, and vídeo game

English

Alternative forms

• videogame, video-game

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪ.di.əʊ̯ˌɡeɪm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈvɪ.di.oʊ̯ˌɡeɪm/

Noun

video game (plural video games)

1. A type of game existing as and controlled by software, usually run by a video game console or a computer, played on a video terminal or television screen, and controlled by a paddle, joystick, joypad, mouse, or keyboard. [1973]
   • 2011 October 7, Lana Del Rey; Justin Parker (lyrics and music), “Video Games”, in Born to Die, performed by Lana Del Rey:

     Swinging in the backyard / Pull up in your fast car whistling my name / Open up a beer / And you say get over here and play a video game / [...] / I say you the bestest / Lean in for a big kiss, put his favorite perfume on / Go play your video game

Related terms

• video gaming
• electronic game
• computer game
• mobile game

Translations

game controlled by software

• Afrikaans: videospeletjie
• Arabic: لَعْبَةْ فِيدِيُو‎ f (laʿbat fīdiyū)
• Asturian: videoxuegu m
• Azerbaijani: video oyun
• Breton: c'hoari video
• Bulgarian: видеоигра́ f (videoigrá)
• Catalan: videojoc (ca) m
• Corsican: videoghjocu sg, videoghjochi pl
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 電子遊戲 (zh), 电子游戏 (zh) (diànzǐ yóuxì), 電腦遊戲, 电脑游戏 (diànnǎo yóuxì)

• Classical Nahuatl: chīuhpōhualhuaztli patōlli
• Czech: videohra f, počítačová hra f
• Danish: computerspil (da) n (computer), konsolspil n (console). videospil n (console, rare)
• Dutch: videospel (nl) n, videospelletje (nl) n, game (nl) m
• Dzongkha: བརྙན་འཁོར་རྩེདམོ (brnyan 'khor rtsedmo)
• Esperanto: videoludo
• Estonian: videomäng
• Faroese: telduspøl
• Finnish: videopeli (fi)
• French: jeu vidéo (fr) m, jeux vidéo (fr) pl
• Galician: videoxogo m
• Georgian: ვიდეო თამაში (video tamaši), ვიდეოთამაში (videotamaši)
• German: Videospiel (de) n
• Greek: βιντεοπαιχνίδι (el) n (vinteopaichnídi)
• Haitian Creole: jwèt videyo
• Hebrew: מִשְׂחַק מַחְשֵׁב‎ (he) m (miskhak makhšev), מִשְׂחַק וִידֵאוֹ‎ m (miskhak vide'o)
• Hungarian: videojáték (hu)
• Icelandic: tölvuleikur m
• Ido: videoludo

• Irish: cluiche físeán m, físchluiche m, cluiche físe m
• Italian: videogioco (it) sg, videogiochi (it) pl
• Japanese: テレビゲーム (terebi gēmu), ビデオゲーム (bideo gēmu)
• Kazakh: бейне ойын (beyne oyın)
• Korean: 비디오 게임 (bidio geim)
• Latin: ludus (la) electronicus, ludus (la) visualis
• Lithuanian: video žaidimai
• Macedonian: видеои́гра f (videoígra)
• Malay: permainan video
• Marathi: संगणक खेळ m (saṅgṇak kheḷ), व्हिडियो गेम m (vhiḍiyo gem)
• Nahuatl: videopatolli, tepoztlamahuizoloni patolli
• Navajo: ániʼ ííłdinii
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: videospill n

  Nynorsk: videospel n

• Persian: بازیهای رایانه‎ (bâzihâ-ye râyâne)
• Polish: gra wideo f
• Portuguese: videojogo (pt) m, vídeo game (pt) m
• Romanian: joc video (ro) n, jocuri video n pl
• Russian: компью́терная игра́ (ru) f (kompʹjúternaja igrá), видеоигра́ (ru) f (videoigrá)
• Serbo-Croatian: видео игра f, video igra f
• Spanish: juego de video, videojuego (es)
• Swahili: mchezo wa video
• Swedish: TV-spel (sv) n, videospel n
• Thai: เกมคอมพิวเตอร์
• Turkish: bilgisayar oyunları
• Vietnamese: trò chơi điện tử
• Welsh: 'n fideo herwhela f
• West Frisian: Kompjûterspultsje

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• videogame, vídeo-game, vídeo game, vídeo game, videogueime (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from English video game.

Noun

video game m (plural video games)

1. video game (software game)
2. (Brazil) video game console

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:video game.

Synonyms

• (video game): videojogo
• (video game console): console