gaming
/ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/ noun B1- The playing of a game.
- Used in noun compounds to describe anything that is decorated in rainbow colors, in a parody of LED-equipped peripherals marketed as "gaming mice", etc.
- Synonym of gambling.
- Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.
Plural gamings
From the library
Cavalcanti the elder had returned to his service, not in the army of his majesty the Emperor of Austria, but at the gaming-table of the baths of Lucca, of which he was one of the most assiduous courtiers.
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