gamify

English

Etymology

From game +‎ -ify.

Verb

gamify (third-person singular simple present gamifies, present participle gamifying, simple past and past participle gamified)

1. (transitive) To convert into the form of a game.
   • 2025 May 10, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “‘The Interview’: Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 May 2025:

     Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.

Related terms

• gamification

Descendants

• → German: gamifizieren

Translations

to convert into the form of a game

Finnish: pelillistää (fi) French: ludifier (fr) German: gamifizieren Portuguese: ludificar, gamificar (pt) Spanish: ludificar (es), gamificar Swedish: spelifiera (sv)

Anagrams

• Gyamfi