Word Finder - games

definition

A playful or competitive activity.

definition

A video game.

definition

(nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

example

He's in the securities game somehow.

definition

Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

example

In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.

definition

An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

definition

Wild animals hunted for food.

example

The forest has plenty of game.

definition

(used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

example

He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game.

definition

Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

definition

A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

example

You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?

definition

To gamble.

definition

To play card games, board games, or video games.

definition

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.

example

We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.

definition

(of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

You can play video games and paint or draw from anywhere.

So he was still playing mind games.

One clue following another until we are together and I rid myself of your foolish games and inconvenient interruptions.

You know they're at war with each other and playing games with us here on earth.

Mountain winters were always a surprise to lowlanders and easterners, where the chemistry of moisture played games that produced slush and wet snow, not the sparkling crystals so soft a broom could clear a foot-deep snowfall with a few swishes.

A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.

Under Augustus the office lost much of its importance, its juridical functions and the care of the games being transferred to the praetor, while its city responsibilities were limited by the appointment of a praefectus urbi.

The games lasted five days.

Next in dignity were the Ilviri aediles, who had charge of the roads and public buildings, the games and the corn-supply, and exercised police control throughout the town.

Acastus, son of Pelias, drove out Jason and Medea and celebrated funeral games in honour of his father, which were celebrated by the poet Stesichorus and represented on the chest of Cypselus.

He compared himself, in contemplation of the close of the great work of his life, to a gallant horse which, after having often won the prize at the Olympic games, obtained his rest when weary with age.

In the afternoon they all went to a great field outside the city gates where the games were to be held.

Such radical redistribution attempts are dangerous games, for the rich are creators of economic opportunity, not just for themselves, but as employers, for society.

He probably also instituted the "plebeian" games.

Pheidon assisted the Pisatans to expel the Elean superintendents of the Olympian games and presided at the festival himself.

The affair of the games has an important bearing on his date.

Games called Assinarian, from the name of the river at which the final surrender occurred, were instituted to commemorate it.

The survival of names of obliterated physical features or characteristics is illustrated in Section I.; but additional instances are found in the Strand, which originally ran close to the sloping bank of the Thames, and in Smithfield, now the central meat market, but for long the " smooth field " where a cattle and hay market was held, and the scene of tournaments and games, and also of executions.

Provision is made for cricket, football and other games in a number of the parks.

At Queen's Club, West Kensington, the annual Oxford and Cambridge athletic meeting and others take place, besides football matches, and there is covered accommodation for tennis and other games.

Fashionable society takes its pastimes at such centres as the grounds of the Hurlingham and Ranelagh clubs, at Fulham and Barnes respectively, where polo and other games are played; and Rotten Row, the horse-track in Hyde Park, is the favourite resort of riders.

Originally intended as assistants to the tribunes, they exercised certain police functions, were empowered to inflict fines and managed the plebeian and Roman games.

They took over the management of the Roman and Megalesian games, the care of the patrician temples and had the right of issuing edicts as superintendents of the markets.

The birthday of Eumenes was regularly kept, and every month sacrifice was offered to him and games held in his honour.

Adrastus, followed by Polyneices and Tydeus, his two sons-inlaw, Amphiaraus, his brother-in-law, Capaneus, Hippomedon and Parthenopaeus, marched against the city of Thebes, and on his way is said to have founded the Nemean games.

They sent competitors to the Olympic games (among them the famous Milo of Croton); and the physicians of Croton early in the 6th century (especially in the person of Democedes) were reputed the best in Greece; but politically they appear to have generally kept themselves separate.

From this time dramatic performances became a regular accompaniment of the public games, and came more and more to encroach on the older kinds of amusement, such as the chariot races.

Macedonia and the regions adjoining it having now been securely consolidated, Philip celebrated his "Olympian" games at Dium.

The Pythian games of 346 were celebrated at the delivered Delphi under Philip's presidency.

Here you find articles in the encyclopedia on topics related to games and leisure.

The other, territorially distinct from it for reasons of statecraft, was the Temple of Roma and Augustus, to which the inhabitants of the 64 Gallic cantons in the three Roman provinces of Aquitania, Lugudunensis and Belgica - the so-called Tres Galliae - sent delegates every summer to hold games and otherwise celebrate the worship of the emperor which was supposed to knit the provincials to Rome.

Though ultimately conquered by the invaders it probably retained much of its former "Ionian" population, whose god Poseidon continued to be worshipped at the national Isthmian games throughout historic times; of the eight communal tribes perhaps only three were Dorian.

It is a continuance by adults of their childish games with dolls.

In the history of Babylonia, the fixed point from which time was reckoned was the era of Nabonassar, 747 B.C. Among the Greeks the reckoning was by Olympiads, the point of departure being the year in which Coroebus was victor in the Olympic Games, 776 B.C. The Roman chronology started from the foundation of the city, the year of which, however, was variously given by different authors.

The Olympic games, so famous in Greek history, were celebrated once every four years, between the new and full moon first following the summer solstice, on the small plain named Olympia in Elis, which was bounded on one side by the river Alpheus, on another by the small tributary stream the Cladeus, and on the other two sides by mountains.

The games in which Coroebus was victor, and which form the principal epoch of Greek history, were celebrated about the time of the summer solstice 776 years before the common era of the Incarnation, in the 3938th year of the Julian period, and twentythree years, according to the account of Varro, before the foundation of Rome.

Games are said to have been held continuously for four months.

He retained through life a warm affection for the school, where he did well both in the classes and the games, and was famous as a walker.

He had the courage also to reform the games, in spite of all the traditions of the playing fields.

The asiarch however refused, urging as an excuse that the games were over.

In 63 B.C. he was curule aedile, assisted Cicero in the suppression of the Catilinarian conspiracy, and distinguished himself by the splendour of the games he provided.

It was a garland, or wreath, of leaves or flowers, conferred on the winners in the athletic games.

Some of the emperors wore crowns on occasion, as Caligula and Domitian, at the games, and stellate or spike crowns are depicted on the heads of several of the emperors on their coins, but no idea of imperial sovereignty was indicated thereby.

They had a special annual festival, called Compitalia, to which public games were added some time during the republican period.

There was, however, an amphitheatre in the reign of Nero, who himself fought in games given there, and the glass cup of Odemira shows two.

A commission was appointed to consider the best modes of retrenchment, and the outlay on shows and games was cut down to the lowest possible point.

The first five books, which cover the same ground as the Aethiopis of Arctinus of Miletus, describe the doughty deeds and deaths of Penthesileia the Amazon, of Memnon, son of the Morning, and of Achilles; the funeral games in honour of Achilles, the contest for the arms of Achilles and the death of Ajax.

Typical examples of "piety" are Aeneas and Antoninus Pius, who founded games called Eusebeia at Puteoli in honour of Hadrian.

Among his own productions are a treatise, De la morale des peres, a history of ancient treaties contained in the Supplement au grand corps diplomatique, and the curious Traite du jeu (1709), in which he defends the morality of games of chance.

There are hundreds of Patience games, ranging from the simplest to the most complicated.