platformer
noun
a type of video game in which the player moves an avatar through an environment filled with obstacles, primarily by running and jumping; platform game.
platformers
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pluralof platformer.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Even so, a few hosts like Stewart have featured projects by filmmakers and authors who otherwise wouldn’t receive exposure on major TV platformers.
From Salon ● Jul. 12, 2024
They are also both platformers - a fairly nebulous genre where the goal is generally to bypass obstacles and enemies by utilising different platforms in a stage.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2023
Urquhart: Going back to Mario 64, what I love about 3D Mario games—and 3D platformers more broadly—is this feeling of freedom.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2021
It’s a meaty collection, one that covers a number of genres; there are lots of shmups, some side-scrolling action games and platformers, and a number of adventure and role-playing titles.
From The Verge ● Apr. 15, 2020
Thereafter we wound round beautiful Lake Amatitlan, a dark, smooth stretch of water, swarming with fish and bottomless, according to my fellow platformers, flanked by sloping, green, shrub-clad banks that reflected themselves in it.
From Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck
