gaming

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ

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gaming

1. present participle and gerund of game

gaming (usually uncountable, plural gamings)

2. The playing of a game.
   • 1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity:

     […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]

   • 2013 June 28, Tom Vanderbilt, “The lose-lose logic of the machine zone”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 29:

     The US gaming industry, in a pamphlet called Demystifying Slot Machines […], argues that "slot manufacturers need to build devices for a society with a decreasing attention span and an increasing demand for exciting, fast-paced entertainment, all in a marketplace overflowing with competing entertainment options".

   2. Ellipsis of videogaming.
      1. (Internet slang) Used in noun compounds to describe anything that is decorated in rainbow colors, in a parody of LED-equipped peripherals marketed as "gaming mice", etc.
   4. Synonym of gambling.
4. Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.

• → Russian: ге́йминг (géjming)

• gigman

gamay +‎ -ing

• Hyphenation: ga‧ming

gaming

1. to shrink in size or quantity

gaming

1. small, little

Borrowed from English gaming

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡeimin/ [ˈɡei̯.mĩn]
• Rhymes: -eimin
• Syllabification: ga‧ming

gaming m (uncountable)

1. gaming (video gaming)