game show

noun

1. a television or radio program in which contestants answer questions or play games of skill or chance in order to win money or other prizes.

Example Sentences

Maybe that helps to explain why we’re seeing so many controversies emerge among the talking heads who populate the traditionally tame realm of game shows and daytime chat programs.

From Time

That mindset was behind Electronic Arts’ latest community-driven game show “Fifa Face-Off.”

From Digiday

Last week, you were a contestant on the game show Lingo, where your objective was to determine a five-letter mystery word.

From FiveThirtyEight

Last week, you were a contestant on the hit new game show, “You Bet Your Fife.”

From FiveThirtyEight

For decades, I’ve tuned into the trivia game show “Jeopardy!”

From FiveThirtyEight

At the same time she moonlighted for 11 years as the emcee of the Disney-syndicated game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

From The Daily Beast

As speakers droned on from the podium doing the preliminary parliamentary business of the convention, a game show process began.

From The Daily Beast

According to records from the Federal Election Commission, game-show kingpin Griffin, creator of Jeopardy!

From The Daily Beast

I was brought onto a game show where I had to hunt and gather to survive for three days.

From The Daily Beast

Beyond the opening monologue, one of the first sketches, a game-show spoof called “New Cast Member of Arcade Fire?”

From The Daily Beast

The satisfaction of having a gun, should any game show itself, was the chief compensation to those of us who were thus burdened.

From Project Gutenberg