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curling
a game played on ice in which heavy stones with handles are slid toward a target
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bowling
a game in which balls are rolled at an object or group of objects with the aim of knocking them over or moving them
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pall-mall
a 17th century game; a wooden ball was driven along an alley with a mallet
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athletic game
a game involving athletic activity
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child's game
a game enjoyed by children
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card game, cards
a game played with playing cards
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table game
a game that is played on a table
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parlor game, parlour game
a game suitable for playing in a parlor
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gambling game, game of chance
a game that involves gambling
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zero-sum game
a game in which the total of all the gains and losses is zero
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dreidel
a game of chance played with a dreidel during the Jewish festival of Hanukkah
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tenpin bowling, tenpins
bowling down an alley at a target of ten wooden pins
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ninepins, skittles
a bowling game that is played by rolling a bowling ball down a bowling alley at a target of nine wooden pins
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duckpins
a bowling game using a pin smaller than a tenpin but proportionately wider
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candlepin bowling, candlepins
a bowling game using slender bowling pins
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bowls, lawn bowling
a bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
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bocce, bocci, boccie
Italian bowling played on a long narrow dirt court
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hockey, hockey game, ice hockey
a game played on an ice rink by two opposing teams of six skaters each who try to knock a flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
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tetherball
a game with two players who use rackets to strike a ball that is tethered to the top of a pole; the object is to wrap the string around the pole
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water polo
a game played in a swimming pool by two teams of swimmers who try to throw an inflated ball into the opponents' goal
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outdoor game
an athletic game that is played outdoors
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court game
an athletic game played on a court
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blindman's bluff, blindman's buff
a children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to catch and identify other players
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cat and mouse, cat and rat
a game for children in which the players form a circle and join hands; they raise their hands to let a player inside the circle or lower their hands to bar a second player who is chasing the first
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cat's cradle
a game played with string looped over the fingers
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hide and go seek, hide-and-seek
a game in which a child covers his eyes while the other players hide then tries to find them
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hopscotch
a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
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jacks, jackstones, knucklebones
a game in which jackstones are thrown and picked up in various groups between bounces of a small rubber ball
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jackstraws, spillikins
a game in which players try to pick each jackstraw (or spillikin) off of a pile without moving any of the others
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jump rope
a child's game or a cardiopulmonary exercise in which the player jumps over a swinging rope
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leapfrog
a game in which one child bends down and another leaps over
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marbles
a children's game played with little balls made of a hard substance (as glass)
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mumble-the-peg, mumblety-peg
a game in which players throw or flip a jackknife in various ways so that the knife sticks in the ground
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going to Jerusalem, musical chairs
a child's game in which players march to music around a group of chairs that contains one chair less than the number of players; when the music abruptly stops the players scramble to sit and the player who does not find a chair is eliminated; then a chair is removed and the march resumes until only the winner is seated
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bopeep, peekaboo
a game played with young children; you hide your face and suddenly reveal it as you say boo!
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pillow fight
a child's game of fighting with pillows
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post office
a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters
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spin the bottle
a game in which a player spins a bottle and kisses the person that it points to when it stops spinning
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spin the plate, spin the platter
a game in which something round (as a plate) is spun on edge and the name of a player is called; the named player must catch the spinning object before it falls or pay a forfeit
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tag
a game in which one child chases the others; the one who is caught becomes the next chaser
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tiddlywinks
a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
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all fours, high-low-jack
card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game
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baccarat, chemin de fer
a card game played in casinos in which two or more punters gamble against the banker; the player wins who holds 2 or 3 cards that total closest to nine
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beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-my-neighbour, strip-Jack-naked
a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards
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blackjack, twenty-one, vingt-et-un
a gambling game using cards; the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding 21
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bridge
any of various card games based on whist for four players
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casino, cassino
a card game in which cards face up on the table are taken with eligible cards in the hand
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crib, cribbage
a card game (usually for two players) in which each player is dealt six cards and discards one or two
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ecarte
a card game for 2 players; played with 32 cards and king high
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euchre, five hundred
a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand
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fantan, parliament, sevens
a card game in which you play your sevens and other cards in sequence in the same suit as the sevens; you win if you are the first to use all your cards
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faro
a card game in which players bet against the dealer on the cards he will draw from a dealing box
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Go Fish
a card game for two players who try to assemble books of cards by asking the opponent for particular cards
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four-card monte, monte, three-card monte
a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are dealt face up and players bet that one of them will be matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the pack one at a time
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Chicago, Michigan, Newmarket, boodle, stops
a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
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Napoleon, nap
a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
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old maid
a card game using a pack of cards from which one queen has been removed; players match cards and the player holding the unmatched queen at the end of the game is the loser (or `old maid')
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bezique, penuchle, pinochle, pinocle
a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
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piquet
a card game for two players using a reduced pack of 32 cards
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pisha paysha
(Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner
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poker, poker game
any of various card games in which players bet that they hold the highest-ranking hand
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rouge et noir, trente-et-quarante
a card game in which two rows of cards are dealt and players can bet on the color of the cards or on which row will have a count nearer some number
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rum, rummy
a card game based on collecting sets and sequences; the winner is the first to meld all their cards
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patience, solitaire
a card game played by one person
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long whist, short whist, whist
a card game for four players who form two partnerships; a pack of 52 cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six
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Ping-Pong, table tennis
a game (trademark Ping-Pong) resembling tennis but played on a table with paddles and a light hollow ball
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dominoes, dominos
any of several games played with small rectangular blocks
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nim
game in which matchsticks are arranged in rows and players alternately remove one or more of them; in some versions the object is to take the last remaining matchstick on the table and in other versions the object is to avoid taking the last remaining matchstick on the table
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billiards
any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls
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pocket billiards, pool
any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets
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bagatelle, bar billiards
a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over
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word game
any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words
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board game
a game played on a specially designed board
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fan tan, fantan
a Chinese gambling game; a random number of counters are placed under a bowl and you gamble on how many will be left (0, 1, 2, or 3 modulo 4)
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drawing, lottery
players buy (or are given) chances and prizes are distributed by casting lots
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craps
a gambling game played with two dice; a first throw of 7 or 11 wins and a first throw of 2, 3, or 12 loses and a first throw of any other number must be repeated to win before a 7 is thrown, which loses the bet and the dice
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roulette
a gambling game in which players bet on which compartment of a revolving wheel a small ball will come to rest in
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banking game
any gambling game in which bets are laid against the gambling house or the dealer