Tra từ game - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

game [game games gamed gaming gamer gamest] noun, adjective BrE [ɡeɪm] NAmE [ɡeɪm]
noun

ACTIVITY/SPORT
1. countable an activity or a sport with rules in which people or teams compete against each other
•card games
•board games
•a game of chance/skill
•ball games, such as football or tennis
• (NAmE) We're going to the ball game (= ↑baseball game).
see also ↑war game
2. countable an occasion of playing a game
•to play a game of chess
•Saturday's League game against Swansea
• Let's have a game of table tennis.
• They're in training for the big game.
3. singular sb's ~ the way in which sb plays a game
•Maguire raised his game to collect the £40 000 first prize.
•Stretching exercises can help you avoid injury and improve your game.

SPORTS
4. gamesplural a large organized sports event
•the Olympic Games
5. gamesplural (old-fashioned, BrE)sport as a lesson or an activity at school
•I always hated games at school.

PART OF SPORTS MATCH
6. countable a section of some games, such as ↑tennis, which forms a unit in scoring
•two games all (= both players have won two games)

CHILDREN'S ACTIVITY
7. countable a children's activity when they play with toys, pretend to be sb else, etc
•a game of cops and robbers

FUN
8. countable an activity that you do to have fun
•He was playing games with the dog.

ACTIVITY, BUSINESS
9. countable a type of activity or business
•How long have you been in this game?
•the game of politics
•I'm new to this game myself.
•Getting dirty was all part of the game to the kids.
see also ↑waiting game

SECRET PLAN
10. countable (informal)a secret and clever plan; a trick
•So that's his game (= now I know what he has been planning).

WILD ANIMALS/BIRDS
11. uncountable wild animals or birds that people hunt for sport or food
see also ↑big game, ↑fair game
more at beat sb at their own game at ↑beat _v., play (a game of) cat and mouseplay a cat-and-mouse game with sb at ↑cat, fun and games at ↑fun _n., a mug's game at ↑mug _n., the name of the game at ↑name _n., numbers game at ↑number _n., the rules of the game at ↑rule _n., have skin in the game at ↑skin _n., talk a good game at ↑talk _v., (the game is) not worth the candle at ↑worth _adj.

Word Origin:
Old English gamen ‘amusement, fun’, gamenian ‘play, amuse oneself’, of Germanic origin.

Culture:
toys and games
Most young children are given toys for their ↑birthday or at ↑Christmas. Many regularly spend their pocket money or allowance on smaller toys. Popular toys include building bricks such as Lego, plastic farm animals, toy cars, model railways and dressing-up costumes. Girls especially have dolls, and several sets of clothes to dress them in. ↑Action Man figures are mainly for boys and ↑Barbie dolls for girls. Babies are given rattles, soft cuddly toys and a ↑teddy bear. Action figures, small plastic models of characters from television shows or films, are also popular. Some parents do not allow their children to have guns or other ‘violent’ toys because they do not want them to think it is fun to kill people.
Among traditional games that are still popular are marbles, which is played with small, coloured glass balls, board games such as ↑snakes and ladders and ↑ludo, card games such as Happy Families, and word games such as ↑hangman. Board and card games are played with family or friends, but children play alone with computer games or video games.
Many children collect objects, such as shells, model animals, stamps or picture cards. In the US baseball cards, cards with a picture of a baseball player on them, are sold with bubblegum. In Britain picture cards are often given free in packets of breakfast cereal.
Children play outside with skipping ropes, bicycles, skateboards and Rollerblades™. In playgrounds there are often swings, a slide, a see-saw and a climbing frame (AmE jungle gym) to climb on. Traditional games played outside include hopscotch, a game in which children hop over squares drawn on the ground to try to pick up a stone, and tag, in which one child chases the others until he or she catches one of them and then that child has to chase the rest.
Toys are often expensive and, even if they can afford them, many parents are unwilling to spend a lot of money on something that they know their children will soon get bored with. Children want toys they see advertised on television or in ↑comics, or toys that their friends already have. There are sometimes crazes for toys connected with characters from a film.
Few people give up toys and games completely when they become adults. Many keep their old teddy bear for sentimental reasons. There are now also executive toys, made specially for adults to keep on their desks. Many people play card games like bridge and poker, and board games such as Scrabble, Monopoly, backgammon and chess.

Thesaurus:
game noun
1. C
•Chess is a game of skill.
sport •
play/take part in a game/sport
team/competitive games/sports
2. C
•The team is in training for the big game.
especially BrE match • |BrE fixture • • tie • • test (match) •
a game/match/fixture/tie/test against/between/with sb
a/an international/friendly game/match/fixture
a home game/match/fixture/tie/test
an away game/match/fixture/tie
win/lose a game/match/fixture/test/tie
Game or match? Game has a wider range of uses than match. In British English match is used to talk about individual or team sports. In American English match is used for individual sports, but game is used for team sports:
• (BrE) a football match
• (BrE, AmE) a tennis match
• a football game
• a game of football
✗ a match of football

Synonyms:
interest
hobby • game • pastime
These are all words for activities that you do for pleasure in your spare time.
interest • an activity or a subject that you do or study for pleasure in your spare time: ▪ Her main interests are music and gardening.
hobby • an activity that you do for pleasure in your spare time: ▪ His hobbies include swimming and cooking.
game • a children's activity when they play with toys, pretend to be sb else, etc; an activity that you do to have fun: ▪ a game of cops and robbers ◇ ▪ He was playing games with the dog.
pastime • an activity that people do for pleasure in their spare time: ▪ Eating out is the national pastime in France.
interest, hobby or pastime?
A hobby is often more active than an interest: ▪ His main hobby is football ▪ (= he plays football) ▪. ◇ ▪ His main interest is football ▪ (= he watches and reads about football, and may or may not play it) ▪. Pastime is used when talking about people in general; when you are talking about yourself or an individual person it is more usual to use interest or hobby: Eating out is the national interest/hobby in France. ◇ Do you have any pastimes?
a popular interest/hobby/pastime
to have/share interests/hobbies
to take up/pursue a(n) interest/hobby

Example Bank:
•Chicago's bid to host the Olympic Games
•Children love learning new games.
•Don't let him talk to anybody or he'll give the game away.
•He pitched a perfect game at Atlanta.
•He was unwittingly caught up in a dangerous game of lies and betrayals.
•He's hoping to be fit before next week's game with Liverpool.
•Hendry raised his game to become the champion.
•Hendry raised his game to collect the £40 000 first prize.
•How I hated team games at school!
•I realized that he had been playing a stupid game with me.
•I'll soon put an end to her silly little games.
•It's going to be a close game.
•It's hard to find indoor games for children.
•Last night he played the final game of his career.
•Lufthansa entered the game with a 25% stake in the company.
•Shall we have a game of chess?
•She's hoping to participate in the next Olympic Games.
•That girl plays a great game of bridge.
•The Olympic Games are held every four years.
•The company is developing games to play on mobile phones.
•The early stages of the game were dominated by the home team.
•The guys are in training for their big game.
•The team fought back to level the game.
•This is a good game for getting people to mix.
•To pass the time, we played a game of cards.
•Trescothick had a good game and was man of the match.
•Trevor had a good game.
•United are playing a home game this week.
•We won the first game and drew the second.
•a game of tennis
•children's party games like Musical Chairs
•competitive games in which there is always a winner and a loser
•finding good indoor games for children
•the game of life/politics
•their first League game of the season
•this week's game against the Titans
•Chess is a game of skill.
•Davenport won the opening game of the third set.
•Discipline is the rock on which the game of golf is built.
•He's levelled the second set at two games all.
•Predicting the outcome of the election is a game of chance.
•She broke Sharapova's serve in the fourth game of the third set.
•So that's his little game.
•The children invented a new game.
•The defence are coming under pressure for the first time in this game.
•Will he be available for Saturday's game against the Bears?
•ball/card/board/computer/video games
Idioms: ↑a game ▪ ↑back in the game ▪ ↑game is up ▪ ↑game on ▪ ↑give the game away ▪ ↑on the game ▪ ↑only game in town ▪ ↑out of the game ▪ ↑play games ▪ ↑play somebody's game ▪ ↑play the game ▪ ↑two can play at that game ▪ ↑what's your game?

adjective ~ (for sth/to do sth)
ready and willing to do sth new, difficult or dangerous
• She's game for anything.
• We need a volunteer for this exercise. Who's game to try?

Word Origin:
Old English gamen ‘amusement, fun’, gamenian ‘play, amuse oneself’, of Germanic origin.