Tra từ game - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 different kinds of game
2 playing games

1 different kinds of game
- a form of play or sport with rules: game
- a game which needs a lot of physical effort: sport
My favourite sports are football, cricket and tennis.
- a game played with a ball: ball game
- a game that you play on a computer: computer game
- one of a number of different games that are played with cards: card game
※ more on card games CARDS
- sports SPORT
※ board games
- a game played on a flat hard piece of wood or cardboard: board game
Scrabble, Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit are popular board games.
- a small cube with a different number of spots on each side, used in certain games: dice (plural dice)
- a small object that is used in some games to show where the player is on the board: counter
- a game for two people in which each player can move sixteen pieces around a board with black and white squares: chess (noun U)
- a game which is played on a chessboard using round black and white pieces: draughts (AmE checkers)(noun U)
※ more on chess CHESS
※ puzzles and quizzes
- a game that tests your knowledge or intelligence: puzzle
to do a puzzle ◎ a mathematical puzzle
- a word game with black and white squares where you write the words in the white squares: crossword (puzzle); to find the right word you have to solve a clue
I can't do this crossword; the clues are too difficult. ◎ to solve a crossword puzzle
- a picture on cardboard or wood that is cut into small pieces; you have to join the pieces together to make the picture: jigsaw (puzzle)
- a game where people have to answer questions about sth: quiz
a general knowledge quiz ◎ a pub quiz (= a quiz played in a pub)
※ other indoor games
- a game in which you roll a ball towards a group of wooden objects and try to knock down as many of them as you can: bowling (noun U); a place where people play this game: bowling alley
ten-pin bowling
- games in which two players try to pot (= hit) different coloured balls into pockets at the edges of a table using a long stick (cue): snooker (noun U), billiards (noun U), pool (noun U)
- a game in which you throw an object like an arrow (dart) at a round board with numbers on it (dartboard): darts (noun U)
※ games played for money
- a building or room with a lot of different machines which you can put money in and try and win more money: amusement arcade
- the highest amount of money that you can win in a game: jackpot
You've hit ( = you've won) the jackpot.
- to risk some money on the result of sth: bet* (on sth), gamble (on/at sth)
※ more on betting BET

2 playing games
- the equipment needed to play a game: game
We went to the toyshop to buy a game for the family at Christmas.
- to play a game: play sth; a time when you play a game: game
Do you play tennis? ◎ Let's play another game of draughts.
- to play a game to try and beat another person or team: play (against) sb
England are playing Scotland in the final.
- an organized event in which people try to win sth: competition
- a game played in a competition: match
a cricket match ◎ a snooker match
- a person who is playing a game: player
a football/chess/darts player
- the person or team you play against: opponent
a tough opponent (= difficult to beat)
- a group of people who play a game or sport together against another group: team
- a group of people who meet to share an interest (for example in a game or sport): club; the place where a club meets is also called a club
a tennis/golf/cricket/athletics club
※ more on competitions, teams and clubs COMPETITION, TEAM, CLUB
- an official statement that tells you what you can or cannot do in a game: rule; something which is not allowed in a game is against the rules
to break a rule
- to play a game in a dishonest or unfair way: cheat; noun (U): cheating; a person who cheats: cheat
You can't do that - it's cheating. ◎ He's such a cheat.
- the kind of action done by sb when they cheat or break the rules in a game (for example in football): foul
to commit a foul
- the person who controls a game and makes sure that the players obey the rules: (in football, rugby, etc) referee, (in cricket, tennis, etc) umpire
- an instrument that produces a high sound, that referees use to make signals: whistle
The referee had already blown his whistle.
- to take a piece (for example in chess) or a counter (for example in monopoly) and move it to another place on the board: move (sth); noun: move
You can only move your counter one square in any direction. ◎ a clever move
- the time in a game when one person must do sth (for example, move their piece): move, turn, go (plural goes)
It's your move/turn/go. ◎ You've had your go already.
- a single mark that you get in a game or sport for doing well: point
- (in football, rugby, etc) a point that is scored when the ball goes into the goal: goal
- the number of points that a team or competitor has: score; verb: score sth
- to be the person with the most points in a competition; win*, come* first
- if you do not win, you lose*
※ more on winning and losing WIN/LOSE