n. 25B6; noun
the children invented a new game : PASTIME, diversion, entertainment, amusement, distraction, divertissement, recreation, sport, activity. See list.
the club haven't lost a game all season : MATCH, contest, fixture, tie, tournament; cup tie, final, cup final, play-off.
we were only playing a game on him : PRACTICAL JOKE, prank, jest, trick, hoax; informal lark.
he's in the banking game : BUSINESS, profession, occupation, trade, industry, line, line of work/business; informal racket.
I spoiled his little game : SCHEME, plot, ploy, stratagem, strategy, gambit, cunning plan, tactics; trick, device, manoeuvre, wile, dodge, ruse, machination, contrivance, subterfuge; informal scam; Brit. informal wheeze; archaic shift.
he hunted game in Africa : WILD ANIMALS, wild fowl, big game. See list.
25B6; adjective
they weren't game enough to join in : BRAVE, courageous, plucky, bold, daring, intrepid, valiant, stout-hearted, mettlesome; fearless, dauntless, undaunted, unflinching; informal gutsy, spunky.
I need a bit of helpare you game? : WILLING, prepared, ready, disposed, of a mind; eager, keen, enthusiastic.
25B6; verb they were drinking and gaming all evening : GAMBLE, bet, place/lay bets.
Games
See also ball 1 game, board game , card , sport . kabaddi
Aunt Sally keno
bagatelle liar dice
bingo mah-jong
Botticelli matador
British bulldog MUD
bumble-puppy mumblety-peg
charades nim
chicken pachinko
chuck-a-luck Pac-Man (trademark)
computer game paintball
consequences panel game
crambo parlour game
craps pinball
crown and anchor pitch-and-toss
darts poker dice
deck quoits pool
deck tennis quoits
diabolo roulette
dice round game
dodgeball shove-halfpenny
dominoes shovelboard
dreidel spillikins
ducks and drakes spin the bottle
dumb crambo Subbuteo (trademark)
dungeons and dragons swy
fan-tan table football
fantasy football thimblerig
fivestones tiddlywinks
forfeits tipcat
frisbee (trademark) trapball
hazard treasure hunt
housey-housey Trivial Pursuit (trademark)
jacks tug of war
jackstraws twenty questions
jukskei two-up
Children's Games
battleships musical bumps
blind man's buff musical chairs
catch noughts and crosses
cat's cradle pass the parcel
conkers pat-a-cake
cops and robbers peekaboo
Chinese whispers peever
follow-my-leader piggy in the middle
grandmother's footsteps Poohsticks
hangman postman's knock
hide-and-seek prisoner's base
hoopla ring-a-ring o' roses
hopscotch sardines
hunt the slipper Simon Says
I spy statues
it tag
King of the Castle taw
leapfrog tick-tack-toe
lotto tig
marbles tok-tokkie
murder in the dark
Game Birds
black grouse pheasant
bobwhite (quail) ptarmigan
capercaillie quail
duck red grouse
francolin ruffed grouse
golden pheasant ringneck pheasant
goose sage grouse
grouse turkey
guineafowl waterfowl
hazel grouse wildfowl
moorfowl willow grouse
partridge woodcock
peafowl woodgrouse