Word Meaning

Meaning of "game" and the crossword clue

- Amusement
- Animal being hunted
- Animals hunted for food
- Contest to find wild animals
- Football match
- Joke prank
- Pastime
- Plucky courageous
- Spirited
- Spirited match
- Sport
- Sport of any kind
- Wild animals, birds or fish pursued for sport or food
- Willing before set and match
- Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
- Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
- A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
- The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
- That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.
- In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
- A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
- Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
- Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
- Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
- To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
- To play at any sport or diversion.
- To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.