Meaning

• A playful or competitive activity.

• A video game.

• (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

  "He's in the securities game somehow."

• Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

  "In the game of life, you may find yourself playing the waiting game far too often."

• An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

• Wild animals hunted for food.

  "The forest has plenty of game."

• (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

  "He didn't get anywhere with her because he had no game."

• Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

• A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

  "You want to borrow my credit card for a week? What's your game?"

Meaning

• To gamble.

• To play card games, board games, or video games.

• To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.

  "We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system."

• (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Meaning

• Willing to participate.

• (of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

• Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

• Injured, lame (of a limb).