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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gamer
noun
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▪ But it is the blood and guts stuff which will have gamers hooked.
▪ But my guide was an Obi-Wan Kenobi among gamers.
▪ Eight gamers can play on a Local Area Network.
▪ Ever wondered why 98% of Commodore gamers are male?
▪ It may seem a little loopy that computer gamers have a league of their own, with six-figure prize money to boot.
▪ Nintendo has the opportunity to give gamers a whole new experience.
▪ The clip from the game you can watch from the links on the right is for gamers aged over 18.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gamer

mid-15c., "an athlete" (mid-13c. as a surname, Johannes le Gamer), agent noun from game (v.). Meaning "one devoted to playing video or computer games" is attested by 1981 (by 1975 in reference to players of Dungeons & Dragons). Gamester is attested from 1580s but also sometimes meant "prostitute" (compare old slang The Game "sexual intercourse" (by 1930s), probably from the first game ever played "copulation"). From 1550s as "a gambler." Gamesman is from 1947.\n\nQuite a few of the gamers we've encountered during our monthly strolls down "Arcade Alley" suffer the same chronic frustration: finding enough opponents to slake their thirst for endless hours of play.

["Video" magazine, May 1981]

Wiktionary
gamer

Etymology 1 n. (context video games gaming English) A person who plays video games. Etymology 2

a. (en-comparative of: game)

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Gamer

A gamer is someone who plays interactive games, usually video games, although games can also come in other forms, such as tabletop or physical games (in some countries, such as the United Kingdom, the term "gaming" can also refer to legalized gambling, which can take both traditional—i.e. tabletop—and digital forms—akin to video games).

There are many gamer communities around the world. Many of these take the form of Internet forums and other virtual communities, as well as in-person social clubs.

Gamer (film)

Gamer is a 2009 American science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. The film stars Gerard Butler as a participant in an online game in which participants can control human beings as players, and Logan Lerman as the player who controls him. Gamer was released in North America on September 4, 2009. The film received negative reviews from critics.

Gamer (disambiguation)

A gamer is one who plays and/or devises games, especially role-playing or video games.

Gamer(s) may also refer to:

Gamer (2011 film)

Gamer was a debut feature-length film directed by Oleg Sentsov. Out of the Russian and Ukrainian language in 2011. He tells of a young gamer, who lives with his mother in Simferopol. Premiere was held in 2012 in Rotterdam. The film participated in several international film festivals and was a highly marked by the professional community, in particular, a premium Russian Guild of Film Critics at the festival Spirit of Fire in Khanty-Mansiysk.

Usage examples of "gamer".

Every Gamer knew that, or should, though some preferred to forget, in their identification with the character.

As a Gamer your expenditures were minimal, and you may not have noticed.

He was played by a good minor Gamer who specialized in torturers and brutal guards for many years.

When the body died, the Gamer gafiated, and is now a character-programmer in Australia, specializing in simple, kindly women, most of them computer-animated.

No Gamer would trust another forever, but Gamers took relaxation when they could.

Trevor Stone of Gen-Dyn was a brawny middle-aged Englishman, a Gamer before Dream Park erected the Domes.

And some made speeches or threw tantrums, but every Gamer did hand over his equipment, and then passed through a doorway lined with scanning apparatus.

Thanks to Emile Bisson for hiring the newest Gamer, Bill Ramthun, and seating him at the desk right next to mine.

Eventually Larry Nlven and Steven Gamer 33 it found its way back to nineteenth-century Africa, carried by repatriated descendants of slaves.

Suddenly Griffin Larry Niven and Steven Barnes 187 saw Bishop as a Gamer King of the Gamers, perhaps.

Game, RedApple, Old Network, and dozens of others: she was a Gamer, all right, and a committed one.

More than that, though, she was something familiar, a kind of Gamer Lioe knew and understood, and all of a sudden she was hungry for just that familiarity.

Avellar, tied to his surviving clone-siblings by a telepathic link, was potentially a fascinating character, though she would have to find a player who could be relied on to avoid Gamer angst.

About the only convention that was held sacrosanct by every Gamer was that no scenario could be allowed to tip the balance between Rebellion and Imperium: to change that would be to change the Game itself.

Guyonet Merede was a Gamer as well as a banker, and a former patron who owned several of his earlier story eggs.