- 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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gaming
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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
Australia's online safety regulator has found "significant gaps" in how popular gaming platforms protect children online.
From BBC ● 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
I like going into people’s homes and seeing how they work or how they’re gaming.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Birthdays, Death Days, and ESP Probability theory began with gambling problems in the seventeenth century, and something of the gaming flavor and appeal clings to it to this day.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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
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
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
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