A game is an activity or sport usually involving skill, knowledge, or chance, in which you follow fixed rules and try to win against an opponent or to solve a puzzle.

A game is one particular occasion on which a game is played.

A game is a part of a match, for example in tennis or bridge, consisting of a fixed number of points.

Games are an organized event in which competitions in several sports take place.

Games are organized sports activities that children do at school.

Someone's game is the degree of skill or the style that they use when playing a particular game.

You can describe a situation that you do not treat seriously as a game .

You can use game to describe a way of behaving in which a person uses a particular plan, usually in order to gain an advantage for himself or herself.

Wild animals or birds that are hunted for sport and sometimes cooked and eaten are referred to as game .

If you are game for something, you are willing to do something new, unusual, or risky.

If someone or something gives the game away, they reveal a secret or reveal their feelings, and this puts them at a disadvantage.

If you are new to a particular game, you have not done a particular activity or been in a particular situation before.

If a man or woman is on the game, he or she is working as a prostitute.

If you beat someone at their own game, you use the same methods that they have used, but more successfully, so that you gain an advantage over them.

If you say that something is all part of the game, you are telling someone not to be surprised or upset by something, because it is a normal part of the situation that they are in.

If you say that someone is playing games or playing silly games, you mean that they are not treating a situation seriously and you are annoyed with them.

If you say that someone has raised their game, you mean that they have begun to perform better, usually because they were under pressure to do so.

If you say the game is up, you mean that someone's secret plans or activities have been revealed and therefore must stop because they cannot succeed.