board game

American  

noun

1. a game, as checkers or chess, requiring the moving of pieces from one section of a board to another.

2. any game played on a board.

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Etymology

Origin of board game

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

The teenagers huddled around the table leap into action, shouting instructions and acting out the correct strategies for just one of the potential catastrophes laid out in the board game called Master of Disaster.

From Barron's

But thanks to geography teachers as well as the board game Trivial Pursuit, people on all corners of the globe know what to ask when someone says he’s from Kansas City.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her expanded list includes some family members whom she gave a hard-to-find version of the Clue board game last year but reacted with “kind of a weird vibe” about getting something used.

From The Wall Street Journal

The family would spend the day eating homemade cheese straws, listening to Frank Sinatra, watching Christmas movies and playing board games.

From BBC

Sadmir and his board game companions are just some of the 300 patients at the gaming disorder clinic, Australia's only publicly-run institution of its type, helping patients wean themselves off excessive online gaming habits.

From BBC