(video games) A dedicated electronic device that is designed to play video games, especially in accompaniment with a television.

(game theory) A game (or a similar political or economic system) in which the gains of some players must equal the losses of others.

(video games, nonstandard) A video game console.

The winter counterpart to the summer Olympic Games, featuring winter sports.

(games) A simple children's game using a rhyme (the counting rhyme) to select a person from a group, more or less at random. The selected person then takes a particular role in another game that follows.

Expressing exasperation or impatience with a situation.

(game theory) Formally, a structure (P, mathbf S, mathbf F) where P = {1,2, ...,m} is a set of players, mathbf S=(S_1,S_2,…,S_m) is an m-tuple of pure strategy sets, one for each player, and mathbf F=(F_1,F_2,…,F_m) is an m-tuple of payoff functions.

(game theory) Informally, a representation of a game as a tree of decision nodes, with the game beginning at a unique initial node, and flowing through the tree along a path determined by the players until a terminal node is reached, where play ends and payoffs are assigned to all players; each non-terminal node belongs to a player; that player chooses among the possible moves at that node, each possible move is an edge leading from that node to another node.

(sports, of a competitor) Playing or competing below one's usual level of performance.

plural of video games console