1. Sport of any kind.
2. Jest; opposed to earnest; as, betwixt earnest and game. [Not used.]
3. An exercise or play for amusement or winning a stake; as a game of cricket; a game of chess; a game of whist. Some games depend on skill; others on hazard.
4. A single match at play.
5. Advantage in play; as, to play the game into another's hand.
6. Scheme pursued; measures planned.
This See ms to be the present game of that crown.
7. Field sports; the chase, falconry, _c.
8. Animals pursued or taken in the chase, or in the sports of the field; animals appropriated in England to legal sportsmen; as deer, hares, _c.
9. In antiquity, games were public diversions or contests exhibited as spectacles for the gratification of the people. These games consisted of running, leaping, wrestling, riding, _c. Such were the Olympic games, the Pythian, the Isthmian, the Nemean, _c, among the Greeks; and among the Romans, the Apollinarian, the Circensian, the Capitoline, _c.
10. Mockery; sport; derision; as, to make game of a person.
GAME, v.i. To play at any sport or diversion.
1. 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.
2. To practice gaming.
