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# game

«game» in Mova's school dictionary: **something you play for fun with rules, like football…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (game, games); adjective (game — willing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A game is something you play for fun with rules, like football, chess or tag. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#m1)

2) A game is one match: «We won the game 3–1». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#m2)

3) Games can mean a big sports event: the Olympic Games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#m3)

4) Game is wild animals hunted for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#m4)

5) To be game is to be willing to try. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

a thing counted (games played, won, lost, video games owned) or the time when points are scored; games won + lost = played; «points per game» is a rate; phrases: «play a game», «board game», «video game», «win the game», «game over»

### examples

- The team played 22 games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x1)
- They won 12 games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x2)
- He has 15 video games. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x3)
- She scored 18 points in the game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x4)
- Let's play a board game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x5)
- We played a maths game in class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x6)
- It's only a game, so be a good loser. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x7)
- Are you game for a swim? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x8)
- Suddenly he tried the guessing game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/#x9)

### note

Countable: a game, games. A thing counted or an event. Games won + lost = played (if there are no draws). Trap: «points per game» is a rate to multiply.

### In the corpora

- [Anyone offering free game coins for your login is a scammer trying to steal the account or a parent's card details.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/19/)
- [A bad picture fades faster if you fill your head with something else, like a favourite place, a game or a song.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/60-next-time-switch-off-tell-and-parental-controls/22/)
- [For stories and pretend games that randomness is fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/5/)
- [The bot gives the common version of a game; local rules are decided by the people who play.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/5-hallucinations-confident-made-up-answers/20/)
- [Board-game tips are well written about online, so bots can give real ones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/7-pretend-games-quotes-and-two-bots/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «game» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/game/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.