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Forms

1.A playful or competitive activity.
- Study can help your game of chess.
- Being a child is all fun and games.
- Games in the classroom can make learning fun.
2.A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.(informal)
- He's in the securities game somehow.
- The rapper bragged about how he ran the game.
- When it comes to making sales, John is the best in the game.
3.An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
- I think that it'll be a good game.
- The football game might be called off on account of rain.
4.Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
- In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often.
- Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.
- “I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

1.Willing and able to participate.(colloquial)
2.That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
3.Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Germanic *gamaną

Proto-West Germanic *gaman

Old English gamen

Middle English game

English game