VIDEO GAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does video game mean? 

• VIDEO GAME (noun)
  The noun VIDEO GAME has 1 sense:

1. a game played against a computer

  Familiarity information: VIDEO GAME used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIDEO GAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A game played against a computer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

computer game; video game

Hypernyms ("video game" is a kind of...):

game (an amusement or pastime)

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

virtual reality (a hypothetical three-dimensional visual world created by a computer; user wears special goggles and fiber optic gloves etc., and can enter and move about in this world and interact with objects as if inside it)

 Context examples 

For the analysis, a three-dimensional optical motion capture system was used, similar to those used in animation films and video games.

(Researchers identify the maximum weight that children should carry in their school backpacks, University of Granada)

Parents should limit TV, video game and computer time.

(Exercise for Children, NIH)

For future therapies that preserve optic nerve axons, Huberman envisions the development of filters for virtual reality video games, television programs, or eyeglasses designed to deliver regeneration-inducing visual stimulation.

(Visual activity regenerates neural connections between eye and brain, NIH)