- present participle of game.
gaming
Americannoun
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gamings
plural
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the playing of games developed to teach something or to help solve a problem, as in a military or business situation.
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Digital Technology. the playing of computer or video games.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gaming
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It has also been attempting to expand its business, including gaming and allowing adverts to play before and during shows and films.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Gibney sporadically complements his archival materials and many interviews with the metaphoric imagery of player-one gaming: toggling between identities, first-person shooter modes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
Teaming up with Amazon, the CEO added, would allow Delta to build on its use of Amazon Web Services and to take advantage of Amazon’s capabilities in retailing, gaming and video.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
For South Korea, another gaming heavyweight, Park So-yeon became the first woman to represent their national team when she competed in Nagoya.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
He and Eric remained close, but they had been together day and night for nearly two years, gaming, networking, going to movies and out to dinner.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
I, madam, must not they judge of all gamings i'th' Court?
From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas
You who know me will know also how useless are such gamings of man with Nature.
From The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Sir Max Pemberton
He had lost too much in recent gamings to afford greater risks just now.
From The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play by Charles Goddard
More junketings, gamings, collecting of outlandish things, visits to religious and civic pageants, new sketches and paintings, doctor’s bills and monk’s fees, minutely recorded.
From Dürer Artist-Biographies by M. F. Sweetser
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