GAMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gaming mean? 

• GAMING (noun)
  The noun GAMING has 1 sense:

1. the act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)

  Familiarity information: GAMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of playing for stakes in the hope of winning (including the payment of a price for a chance to win a prize)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

gambling; gaming; play

Context example:

there was heavy play at the blackjack table

Hypernyms ("gaming" is a kind of...):

diversion; recreation (an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates)

vice (a specific form of evildoing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gaming"):

sporting life (active interest in gambling on sports events)

bet; wager (the act of gambling)

gambling game; game of chance (a game that involves gambling)

throw (casting an object in order to determine an outcome randomly)

Derivation:

game (place a bet on)

 Context examples 

And in the wretched state of his own finances, there was a very powerful motive for secrecy, in addition to his fear of discovery by Lydia's relations, for it had just transpired that he had left gaming debts behind him to a very considerable amount.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

He observed, that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She looked about her with due consideration, and found almost everything in his favour: a park, a real park, five miles round, a spacious modern-built house, so well placed and well screened as to deserve to be in any collection of engravings of gentlemen's seats in the kingdom, and wanting only to be completely new furnished—pleasant sisters, a quiet mother, and an agreeable man himself—with the advantage of being tied up from much gaming at present by a promise to his father, and of being Sir Thomas hereafter.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Some were undone by lawsuits; others spent all they had in drinking, whoring, and gaming; others fled for treason; many for murder, theft, poisoning, robbery, perjury, forgery, coining false money, for committing rapes, or sodomy; for flying from their colours, or deserting to the enemy; and most of them had broken prison; none of these durst return to their native countries, for fear of being hanged, or of starving in a jail; and therefore they were under the necessity of seeking a livelihood in other places.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Hence it follows of necessity, that vast numbers of our people are compelled to seek their livelihood by begging, robbing, stealing, cheating, pimping, flattering, suborning, forswearing, forging, gaming, lying, fawning, hectoring, voting, scribbling, star-gazing, poisoning, whoring, canting, libelling, freethinking, and the like occupations: every one of which terms I was at much pains to make him understand.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)