Antonyms for games
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : geym |
| Phonetic Transcription : geɪm |
Definition of games
Origin :- Old English gamen "game, joy, fun, amusement," common Germanic (cf. Old Frisian game "joy, glee," Old Norse gaman, Old Saxon, Old High German gaman "sport, merriment," Danish gamen, Swedish gamman "merriment"), regarded as identical with Gothic gaman "participation, communion," from Proto-Germanic *ga- collective prefix + *mann "person," giving a sense of "people together."
- Meaning "contest played according to rules" is first attested c.1300. Sense of "wild animals caught for sport" is late 13c.; hence fair game (1825), also gamey. Game plan is 1941, from U.S. football; game show first attested 1961.
- noun entertainment
- noun individual sporting event
- noun undomesticated animals chased for food
- noun plot, trick
- No woman was allowed to enter Olympia, during the celebration of the games.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- All kinds o' games had been put up on him and he beat 'em all.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- Go outside with these children, and help them to some games.
- Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic
- Games of address are not to be put upon a footing with games of hazard.'
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 3 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- During the past months they had been living here, training for the games.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
- Menon and Charmides had a thousand questions about the games.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
- Menon talked gaily about their journey, the games to-morrow, Creon's training.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
- He had the three games out of five and was winner of the pentathlon.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
- He heard of the women's games that were held once a year at Olympia in honor of Hera.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
- On the next day there were games for the men, like those the boys had played.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities, Part 2 » by Jennie Hall
Synonyms for games
- adventure
- amusement
- athletics
- business
- butt
- chase
- competition
- contest
- derision
- design
- device
- distraction
- diversion
- enterprise
- festivity
- fish
- fowl
- frolic
- fun
- hoax
- jest
- joke
- kill
- lark
- line
- match
- meat
- meeting
- merriment
- merrymaking
- object of ridicule
- occupation
- pastime
- plan
- play
- ploy
- practical joke
- prank
- prey
- proceeding
- pursuit
- quarry
- ravin
- recreation
- romp
- round
- scheme
- sport
- sports
- stratagem
- strategy
- tactic
- tournament
- undertaking
- victim
- wild animals
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