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See also: Gaming
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/
- Rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
gaming
- present participle and gerund of game
Noun
gaming (usually uncountable, plural gamings)
- 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".
- Ellipsis of videogaming.
- Synonym of gambling.
- 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
- casual gaming
- cybergaming
- exergaming
- gaming attendant
- gaming board
- gaming center
- gaming chair
- gaming computer
- gaming console
- gaming house
- gaming machine
- gaming pants
- gaming purse
- gaming table
- heated gaming moment
- metagaming
- neurogaming
- nongaming
- non-gaming
- pre-gaming
- retro gaming
- retro-gaming
- retrogaming
- telegaming
- video gaming
- wargaming
Related terms
Descendants
- → Russian: ге́йминг (géjming)
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Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: ga‧ming
Verb
gaming
Adjective
gaming
Spanish
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Noun
gaming m (uncountable)
- gaming (video gaming)
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