Game vs. Sport

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.

Sportnoun

(countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.

Sportnoun

(countable) Something done for fun despite being intended for and primarily used for serious goals.

Sportnoun

(countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.

Sportnoun

(countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.

Sportnoun

(obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

Sportnoun

(obsolete) Mockery; derision.

Sportnoun

(countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

Sportnoun

(uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.

Sportnoun

A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.

Sportnoun

A sportsman; a gambler.

Sportnoun

One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.

Sportnoun

An amorous dalliance.

Sportnoun

A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)

Sportnoun

(obsolete) Play; idle jingle.

Sportverb

(intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.

Sportverb

(intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.

Sportverb

(transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.

Sportverb

(reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.

Sportverb

(transitive) To represent by any kind of play.

Sportverb

To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.

Sportverb

To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.

Sportverb

(transitive) To close (a door).

Sportnoun

That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.

Sportnoun

Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.

Sportnoun

That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.

Sportnoun

Play; idle jingle.

Sportnoun

Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.

Sportnoun

A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.

Sportnoun

A sportsman; a gambler.

Sportverb

To play; to frolic; to wanton.

Sportverb

To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.

Sportverb

To trifle.

Sportverb

To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; - said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.

Sportverb

To divert; to amuse; to make merry; - used with the reciprocal pronoun.

Sportverb

To represent by any kind of play.

Sportverb

To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.

Sportverb

To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; - with off; as, to sport off epigrams.

Sportnoun

an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

Sportnoun

the occupation of athletes who compete for pay

Sportnoun

someone who engages in sports

Sportnoun

(biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration

Sportnoun

(Maine colloquial) temporary summer resident of inland Maine

Sportnoun

verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously);

Sportverb

wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner;

Sportverb

play boisterously;

Sport

Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve one's physical health.