Crossword clues for gaming
gaming
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
gaming \gam"ing\ (g[=a]m"[i^]ng), n. The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1500, "gambling," verbal noun from game (v.). From 1980s in reference to video and computer games. Gaming-house is from 1620s; gaming-table from 1590s.
Wiktionary
n. The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and game of chance. vb. (present participle of game English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Gaming is the act of playing games, as in:
- Playing a tabletop game, any game played on a flat surface
- Playing a video game, an electronic game with a video interface
- Playing a role-playing game, in which players assume fictional roles
- Legalized gambling, playing games of chance for money, often referred to in law as "gaming"
Gaming may also refer to:
- Gaming the system, manipulating a system's rules to achieve a desired outcome
Usage examples of "gaming".
Cliff, this means attendance at mills, bearbaitings, cockfights, and visits to any gaming hell where green-as-grass country bumpkins can be assured mat they will leave the establishment with empty pockets.
Cerise was off gaming with other cardmasters, using common cards, to sharpen her wits.
The first time, I saved him from being cheated by a cardsharp in a Tyrian gaming house.
The sale of raklick, crax, and a half dozen other similar poisons, the abuse of minors, grossly rigged gaming, plus all the violence that goes with them would be rampant without strong, unremitting control, to the point that a large part of the current clientele would be frightened off.
Its lights, glowing circular globes floating weightlessly near the ceiling, shone down on traders, prospectors, adventurers, bounty hunters, whores, gamblers, all the flotsam and jetsom of the Inner Frontier, as they gathered around the burnished chrome bar and the gaming tables.
Gaming teams have to use it on the flooded levels, but getting it there will be an exercise in masochism.
He was in the middle of acquiring the Melton estate after the bloody fool lost his fortune at the gaming table just last week.
Lady Fate Casino was almost empty, but the gaming tables were crowded with people celebrating their good fortune in escaping immolation - perhaps the longest shot any oddsmaker had ever posted.
A few more wars, a few more years, and Jonathan will sit on the throne, and I will lead his armies, and the ports of Phoenicia and Philistia will hold our round-bellied merchant ships and the pharaoh of Egypt will send us gaming boards of agate and onyx, and papyrus scrolls with the Book of the Dead inscribed in hieroglyphics which look like scarabs or lightning flashes.
Matthew had an appetite for some of the seedier bordellos and gaming halls in the city.
Surely London was filled with gaming hells and pubs and places where men like Tom Shaughnessy could find entertainment and feminine company and more women over whom to fight duels.
The Wells are a mere pretext for gaming, intriguing, and fortune-hunting.
The banker at the gaming table was a certain Don Joseph Marratti, the same man whom I had known in the Spanish army under the name of Don Pepe il Cadetto, and a few years afterwards assumed the name of Afflisio, and came to such a bad end.
This was a place for adults to gather, for serious meetings, discussions, and rituals -- and gaming.
But the science of gaming is that which above all others employs their thoughts.