- present participle of game.
gaming
Americannoun
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gamings
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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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Origin of gaming
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The deal would value the gaming studio at more than $1.5 billion, a source familiar with the matter said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
Last year, the company shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, one of the gaming studios it acquired in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
It is yet another example of how gaming an algorithm can fuel real-world harm.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
Netflix said it is in the process of closing two of its gaming studios, as the division is making another round of organizational changes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
Rumors began to circulate that Gregarious Games was developing some sort of new computer gaming hardware and that this secret project was rapidly exhausting the company’s considerable financial resources.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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
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
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
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
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