Entertainment vs. Game

Entertainmentnoun

An activity designed to give pleasure, enjoyment, diversion, amusement, or relaxation to an audience, no matter whether the audience participates passively as in watching opera or a movie, or actively as in games.

Entertainmentnoun

A show put on for the enjoyment or amusement of others.

Entertainmentnoun

(obsolete) Maintenance or support.

Entertainmentnoun

(obsolete) Admission into service; service.

Entertainmentnoun

(obsolete) Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

Entertainmentnoun

(obsolete) Reception; (provision of) food to guests or travellers.

Entertainmentnoun

The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general.

Entertainmentnoun

That which entertains, or with which one is entertained;

Entertainmentnoun

Admission into service; service.

Entertainmentnoun

Payment of soldiers or servants; wages.

Entertainmentnoun

a diversion that holds the attention

Entertainment

Entertainment is a form of activity that holds the attention and interest of an audience or gives pleasure and delight. It can be an idea or a task, but is more likely to be one of the activities or events that have developed over thousands of years specifically for the purpose of keeping an audience's attention.

Gamenoun

A playful or competitive activity.

Gamenoun

A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

Gamenoun

(countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

Gamenoun

(countable) A particular instance of playing a game; match.

Gamenoun

That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.

Gamenoun

The number of points necessary to win a game.

Gamenoun

(card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.

Gamenoun

(countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.

Gamenoun

One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.

Gamenoun

An amorous dalliance.

Gamenoun

(countable) A video game.

Gamenoun

A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

Gamenoun

Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

Gamenoun

An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

Gamenoun

(uncountable) Wild animals hunted for food.

Gamenoun

The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

Gamenoun

Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

Gamenoun

(countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

Gameadjective

(colloquial) Willing to participate.

Gameadjective

(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

Gameadjective

Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Gameadjective

Injured, lame (of a limb).

Gameverb

(intransitive) To gamble.

Gameverb

(intransitive) To play video games.

Gameverb

(transitive) To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

Gameverb

To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Gameadjective

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

Gameadjective

Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.

Gameadjective

Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.

Gamenoun

Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.

Gamenoun

A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.

Gamenoun

The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.

Gamenoun

That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.

Gamenoun

In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.

Gamenoun

A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.

Gamenoun

Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.

Gameverb

To rejoice; to be pleased; - often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.

Gameverb

To play at any sport or diversion.

Gameverb

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 some other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

Gamenoun

a single play of a game;

Gamenoun

a contest with rules to determine a winner;

Gamenoun

an amusement or pastime;

Gamenoun

animal hunted for food or sport

Gamenoun

the game equipment needed to play a game;

Gamenoun

your occupation or line of work;

Gamenoun

(games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win;

Gamenoun

the flesh of wild animals that is used for food

Gamenoun

a secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal);

Gamenoun

frivolous or trifling behavior;

Gameverb

place a bet on;

Gameadjective

disabled in the feet or legs;

Gameadjective

willing to face danger

Game

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements.