Another word for game
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Noun
Actions taken as a joke
- An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
- Such activities considered as a group:
- A usually challenging activity undertaken for amusement:
- To occupy oneself in an activity for amusement or recreation:
- To take part in a sport or game:
- To participate in betting; gamble.
- Enjoyment; amusement:
- A source of enjoyment, amusement, or pleasure:
- To speak or act facetiously; joke or fool.
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Verb
To make a bet
- An agreement under which each bettor pledges a certain amount to the other depending on the outcome of an unsettled matter.
- A matter bet on; a gamble.
- Something that is staked on an uncertain outcome; a bet:
- To occupy oneself in an activity for amusement or recreation:
- To take part in a sport or game:
- To participate in betting; gamble.
- To cause to lie down:
- To place in or bring to a particular position:
- To bury.
- To bet on an uncertain outcome, as of a contest.
- To play a game of chance for stakes.
- To take a risk in the hope of gaining an advantage or a benefit.
- An agreement usually between two parties that the one who has made an incorrect prediction about an uncertain outcome will forfeit something stipulated to the other; a wager:
- An amount or object risked in a wager; a stake:
- One on which a stake is or can be placed:
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Adjective
Having or showing courage
- Marked by courage or daring; plucky.
- Robust and uninhibited; lusty:
- Spirited; plucky.
- Marked by or possessing great personal bravery; valiant.
- Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave:
- Not discouraged or disheartened; resolutely courageous.
- Feeling, exhibiting, or expressing no fear.
- Brave; courageous.
- Bulky in figure; thickset or corpulent.
- Strong in body; sturdy:
- Thick or strong in structure or substance; solid or substantial:
- Having or showing courage and spirit in trying circumstances.
- Full of mettle; spirited and plucky.
- Resolutely courageous; fearless.
- Of, relating to, or resembling the heroes of literature, legend, or myth.
- Having, displaying, or characteristic of the qualities appropriate to a hero; courageous:
- Impressive in size or scope; grand:
- Able to withstand difficult or adverse conditions; robust:
- Courageous; intrepid.
- Brazenly daring; audacious.
- Smartly or boldly stylish; dashing:
- Unflinching in battle or action; valiant:
- Nobly or selflessly resolute:
- Having fortitude; courageous.
- Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
- Without fear; brave.
- Marked by stouthearted courage; brave.
- Incapable of being intimidated or discouraged; fearless.
- Having or characterized by courage; valiant.
- Possessing or displaying courage.
- Making a fine display; impressive or showy:
- Excellent; great:
- Fearless and daring; courageous:
- Requiring or exhibiting courage or daring:
- Unduly forward and brazen; impudent:
- Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold.
- Unrestrained by convention or propriety; brazen or insolent:
- Spirited and original:
See also:Disposed to accept or agree
- Happily; gladly:
- Ready; willing.
- Pleased; happy.
- Disposed or inclined; prepared:
- Acting or ready to act gladly; eagerly compliant:
- Done, given, or accepted voluntarily or ungrudgingly.
- Prepared or available for service, action, or progress:
- Mentally disposed; willing:
- Likely or about to do something:
- Disposed; inclined:
- Having a specified kind of mind. Often used in combination:
- Directed or oriented toward something specified. Often used in combination:
- To one's liking; pleasing:
- Suitable; conformable:
- Ready to consent or submit:
- Disposed or willing to acquiesce.
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Another word for game
Modifier
Plucky
- Inclined to engage in risky activities or enterprises.
- Full of or characterized by animation, vigor, or courage:
- Having a specified mood or nature. Used in combination:
See also:*Lame
- Lacking physical strength, energy, or vigor; feeble.
- Likely to fail under pressure, stress, or strain; lacking resistance:
- Lacking firmness of character or strength of will:
- simple past tense and past participle of injure
- Not achieving an adequate standard; poor:
- Immoral or evil.
- Vulgar or obscene:
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Noun
Entertainment
- To occupy oneself in an activity for amusement or recreation:
- To take part in a sport or game:
- To participate in betting; gamble.
- An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
- Such activities considered as a group:
- A usually challenging activity undertaken for amusement:
- Refreshment of one's mind or body after work through activity that amuses or stimulates; play.
- An activity that provides such refreshment.
- The act or an instance of diverting or turning aside; deviation.
- Something that distracts the mind and relaxes or entertains.
- A maneuver that draws the attention of an opponent away from a planned point of action, especially as part of military strategy.
- The state of being amused, entertained, or pleased.
- Something that amuses, entertains, or pleases.
- An activity that occupies one's spare time pleasantly:
Competition
- A series of contests in which a number of contestants compete and the one that prevails through the final round or that finishes with the best record is declared the winner.
- A medieval martial sport in which two groups of mounted and armored combatants fought against each other with blunted lances or swords.
- One that is exactly like another or a counterpart to another:
- One that is like another in one or more specified qualities:
- One that is able to compete equally with another:
- A struggle for superiority or victory between rivals:
- A competition, especially one in which entrants perform separately and are rated by judges:
- To compete or strive for; struggle to gain or control:
- An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and often undertaken competitively.
- Such activities considered as a group:
- A usually challenging activity undertaken for amusement:
*A trick
- An act intended to deceive or trick.
- Something that has been established or accepted by fraudulent means.
- To deceive or cheat by using a hoax.
- A mischievous trick played on a person, especially one that causes the victim to experience embarrassment, indignity, or discomfort.
- A mischievous trick or practical joke.
See also:Wild meat, fish, or fowl
- Voracity; rapaciousness.
- Something taken as prey.
- The act or practice of preying.
- An animal hunted or caught by another for food:
- The collection of animals typically hunted and eaten by a predator:
- An object or victim of attack:
- A hunted animal; prey.
- Hunted animals considered as a group; game.
- An object of pursuit:
Idioms:
ahead-of-the-game
off-one-s-game
play-games
play the game
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