HOW TO PRONOUNCE
games
/ɡeɪmz/
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What does games mean?
noun
- plural of game
verb
- third-person singular simple present indicative of game
proper noun
- (informal) The Olympic Games.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɡeɪmz/
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Sports--hunting, angling, athletic games, and the like--afford an exercise for dexterity and for the emulative ferocity and astuteness characteristic of predatory life.
The presence of this medium incites bellicose exhibitions in a boy, first in games, then in fact when he is strong enough.
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There is no more brilliant student of men in games than Washburn, and his persistence of attack is second only to Brookes'.
He became extremely animated over these games, bitterly lamenting his bad luck and exploding with exaggerated mock-anger at my mother's good fortune.
Every fine night parties of the younger people assembled on the sands, and dancing and games were carried on for hours together.