Usually means: Structured play with rules, objectives.
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We found 66 dictionaries that define the word game:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. game: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. game, game: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. game, game: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. game: Collins English Dictionary
  5. game: Vocabulary.com
  6. GAme, Game, game, game: Wordnik
  7. game: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. The Game, game: Wiktionary
  9. game: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. game: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. game: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. game: Dictionary.com
  13. game (adj.), game (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. game: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. G.A.M.E, GAME (retailer), GAME, Game(Flim), Game (BoA song), Game (Flow album), Game (KHM album), Game (Nikolay Baskov album), Game (Perfume album), Game (Scientology), Game (South Africa brand), Game (company), Game (disambiguation), Game (dog), Game (food), Game (grape), Game (hunting), Game (meat), Game (play), Game (rapper), Game (retailer), Game (simulation), Game, The Game (Alyssa Reid album), The Game (Alyssa Reid song), The Game (American TV series), The Game (British TV series), The Game (Chico DeBarge album), The Game (Common song), The Game (Crispy album), The Game (Desperate Housewives), The Game (Disturbed song), The Game (DragonForce song), The Game (Dryden book), The Game (Echo & the Bunnymen song), The Game (End of Fashion song), The Game (Harvard-Yale), The Game (Jones novel), The Game (Ken Dryden), The Game (London novel), The Game (Queen album), The Game (Red Flag song), The Game (U.S. TV series), The Game (UK TV series), The Game (US TV series), The Game (dice game), The Game (film), The Game (game), The Game (mind game), The Game (play), The Game (rapper), The Game (treasure hunt), The Game, The game, .game: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Game: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. game: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. game: Rhymezone
  19. game: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. game: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Game: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. game: Free Dictionary
  23. game: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. game: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. game: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. The Game: Who2
  27. game: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beginners' Bridge Glossay (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. game: Glossary of research economics
  3. Game: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. game: Legal dictionary
  6. game: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Game: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. Game: Game Dictionary
  3. Game (food), game: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Game: MedFriendly Glossary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Game: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. GAME: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. game: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Game: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Game Theory Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. game, game: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. GAME: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. game, game, game, game: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. The 'GAME, The Game (Hard Mode), The Game (how to win), g.a.m.e: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Racquetball Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Squash Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Inter Badminton (No longer online)
  5. Game: Sports Definitions

(Note: See gamed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A playful or competitive activity.
noun:  A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.
noun:  (countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.
noun:  (UK, in the plural) A school subject during which sports are practised.
noun:  (countable) A particular instance of playing a game.
noun:  That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.
noun:  The number of points necessary to win a game.
noun:  (card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.
noun:  (countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.
noun:  One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.
noun:  (now rare) Lovemaking, flirtation.
noun:  (slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)
noun:  (countable, informal, nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
noun:  (countable, figuratively) Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
noun:  (countable, military) An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
noun:  (countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.
noun:  (uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.
noun:  (uncountable, informal, used mostly for men) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
noun:  (uncountable, archaic) Diversion, entertainment.
adjective:  (colloquial) Willing and able to participate.
adjective:  (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
adjective:  Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
verb:  (intransitive) To gamble.
verb:  (intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.
verb:  (transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
verb:  (transitive, seduction community, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
adjective:  (of a limb) Injured, lame.
noun:  (countable) Ellipsis of video game. [A type of game, existing as and controlled by software, usually run by a video game console or a computer, played on a monitor or television screen, and controlled by a joypad, joystick, keyboard, mouse, or paddle.]

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