Synonyms for play games
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : geym |
| Phonetic Transcription : geɪm |
Top 10 synonyms for play games Other synonyms for the word play games
- amuse oneself
- angle
- arrange
- beguile
- bluff
- bring about
- bring off
- cause
- cheat
- cogitate
- collude
- come up with
- compass
- con
- conduct
- connive
- conspire
- contrive
- control
- cook
- cope with
- coquet
- cosset
- dally
- dandle
- design
- develop
- devise
- direct
- doctor
- effect
- elaborate
- encompass
- engineer
- execute
- fence
- finagle
- finesse
- fix
- fool around
- go around
- guide
- handle
- hatch
- hit upon
- influence
- intrigue
- invent
- jest
- jockey
- lead on
- leave holding the bag
- machinate
- manage
- maneuver
- manipulate
- massage
- mastermind
- mess around
- mold
- move
- navigate
- negotiate
- operate
- organize
- originate
- pass
- pet
- plan
- plant
- play
- play around
- play games
- plot
- proceed
- project
- promote
- pull strings
- pull wires
- push around
- put one on
- put one over
- put over
- put through
- rig
- scam
- scheme
- set up
- sham
- shape
- shift
- sport
- steer
- string along
- succeed
- superintend
- supervise
- swing
- tease
- trick
- trifle
- trump up
- upstage
- use
- wangle
- wanton
- work
- work out
- wrangle
Définition of play 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.
- As in machinate : verb maneuver, plot
- As in manage : verb accomplish
- As in maneuver : verb plan, scheme
- As in manipulate : verb change to suit one's desire
- As in toy : verb play with
- As in one-up : verb trump
- As in contrive : verb bring about, succeed with difficulty
- As in engineer : verb devise; bring about
- As in finesse : verb maneuver, manipulate
- He stands in the courtyard, where the young men used to play games.
- Extract from : « Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae » by Jennie Hall
- Then, with a wave of his hand, he signified to the boys to run out and play games.
- Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis
- It was a pity he wasn't able to play games with her like some of the others.
- Extract from : « Life Sentence » by James McConnell
- We worked in de day an' had de nights to play games an' have singin's.
- Extract from : « Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States » by Various
- Now, children, let us sit in a circle and play games and sing songs.
- Extract from : « Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades » by Florence Holbrook
- Yet, Jack was a boy, and he often longed to play games with the others.
- Extract from : « The Hoosier School-boy » by Edward Eggleston
- Their elders do not play games with them as much as English people do with their children.
- Extract from : « Home Life in Germany » by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick
- The husband may like to play games, the wife may want to read.
- Extract from : « The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) » by W. Grant Hague
- "I could play games with mother quite as well as you," he said with an angry frown.
- Extract from : « Queensland Cousins » by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield
- He would not play games with them—his mother had forbidden that.
- Extract from : « Gladiator » by Philip Wylie
Antonyms for play games
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