Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for social gaming. Search instead for perceive gaming.

social gaming

American  

noun

Digital Technology.
  1. the playing of online games on social media websites.


Other Word Forms

Etymology

Origin of social gaming

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

Roblox is a social gaming platform with a young demographic, and it has decided to take the lead in estimating users’ ages, and then keeping age groups in their own silos.

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Vaughn was not asked directly about any Disney projects and spoke only broadly, but stated, “None of us have really nailed it,” when it came to bringing social gaming environments into a physical space.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 20, 2024

“Many more people have made money betting on Elon than against him,” said Mark Pincus, who founded the social gaming company Zynga and knows Mr. Musk.

From New York Times May 5, 2022

Its entry into social gaming, via its $563.2 million purchase of Playdom in 2010, resulted in a write-down.

From Reuters Nov. 11, 2021

By 2011, he’d helped Caesars acquire the Israeli start-up social gaming company Playtika for roughly $100 million, then saw it flipped in 2017 for $4.4 billion to a Chinese consortium.

From Seattle Times Jun. 7, 2019

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Join 12,000,000 vocabulary learners

Start learning new words today on VocabTrainer.
You'll remember them forever.

Start training