games

The word “games” has 1 syllable: games

It's pronounced as /ɡeɪmz/


What is synonym and antonym for games?

In the thesaurus, “games” has 224 synonyms and 7 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for games along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for games

  • action
  • aims
  • ambits
  • amplitudes
  • amusement
  • appointments
  • areas
  • arenas
  • arrangements
  • arts
  • assignments
  • athletics
  • bailiwicks
  • ball
  • baronies
  • battles
  • berths
  • biathlons
  • billets
  • blueprints
  • bouts
  • breadths
  • businesses
  • callings
  • calls
  • championships
  • circles
  • clash
  • classics
  • collusions
  • compasses
  • competitions
  • conceptions
  • confines
  • conflicts
  • conspiracies
  • contest
  • contests
  • contrivances
  • counter-strategies
  • counterplans
  • counterstrategies
  • crafts
  • dead heats
  • decathlons
  • demesnes
  • departments
  • derbies
  • designs
  • devices
  • diagrams
  • dimensions
  • disciplines
  • disport
  • diversion
  • domains
  • drill
  • duel
  • duties
  • elements
  • employments
  • engagements
  • enterprises
  • event
  • events
  • exercise
  • exercises
  • extents
  • fiefdoms
  • fiefs
  • field days
  • fields
  • fight
  • finals
  • firmaments
  • formulae
  • formulas
  • frolic
  • frontiers
  • fronts
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • functions
  • gaiety
  • gambits
  • game
  • game plans
  • gigs
  • ground plans
  • gymkhanas
  • handcrafts
  • handicrafts
  • heats
  • heptathlons
  • ideas
  • intentions
  • intents
  • jobs
  • joust
  • kens
  • kingdoms
  • layouts
  • lays
  • lifeworks
  • lines
  • livelihoods
  • livings
  • loads
  • maneuvers
  • maps
  • marathons
  • master plans
  • match
  • matches
  • matchups
  • means
  • meet
  • meeting
  • meets
  • metiers
  • missions
  • nationals
  • nightcaps
  • occupations
  • offices
  • outings
  • pastime
  • patterns
  • pentathlons
  • photo finishes
  • physical activity
  • picnic
  • places
  • plans
  • platforms
  • play
  • play-offs
  • pleasure
  • plots
  • policies
  • positions
  • posts
  • practice
  • precincts
  • procedures
  • professions
  • programs
  • projects
  • projets
  • proposals
  • protocols
  • provinces
  • purposes
  • pursuits
  • races
  • rackets
  • rallies
  • reaches
  • realms
  • recipes
  • recreation
  • road maps
  • round-robins
  • rounds
  • rubbers
  • runoffs
  • runs
  • ruses
  • schemes
  • scopes
  • scrimmages
  • seesaws
  • semifinals
  • series
  • sets
  • setups
  • situations
  • skirmishes
  • specialties
  • specifications
  • specifics
  • spheres
  • sport
  • sports
  • stratagems
  • strategies
  • struggles
  • studies
  • sub-specialties
  • subfields
  • subjects
  • subspecialties
  • subterfuges
  • sudden deaths
  • sweep-stake
  • sweeps
  • sweepstakes
  • systems
  • tactics
  • tasks
  • techniques
  • terrains
  • territories
  • test
  • tilt
  • tournaments
  • tourney
  • tourneys
  • trades
  • triathlons
  • tricks
  • tugs-of-war
  • turfs
  • turves
  • tussles
  • ultramarathons
  • vocations
  • volleys
  • walks
  • ways
  • widths
  • workloads
  • workout
  • works

Antonyms for games

  • avocations
  • hobbies
  • peace
  • pursuits
  • seriousness
  • vocation
  • work

Meanings of games

  • noun
    1. A playful or competitive activity.
    2. A video game.
    3. (nearly always singular) A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.
    4. Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.
    5. An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.
    6. Wild animals hunted for food.
    7. (used mostly of males) The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.
    8. Mastery; the ability to excel at something.
    9. A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.
  • verb
    1. To gamble.
    2. To play card games, board games, or video games.
    3. 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.
    4. (of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Example Sentences

  • Games provide entertainment and relaxation for people of all ages.
  • Children often invent imaginative games to play with their friends.
  • The Olympic games feature a wide range of sports from around the world.
  • Board games are a popular choice for family gatherings and social events.
  • Video games have become a significant part of contemporary culture, enjoyed by millions worldwide.

On this page you'll find 231 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to games, such as: action, aims, ambits, amplitudes, amusement, appointments, areas.

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Related Words

gags

  • adventures
  • amuses
  • antics
  • asphyxiates
  • banters
  • barfs
  • boffolas
  • boffos
  • boffs
  • buffooneries
  • burlesques
  • capers
  • capriccios
  • caprices
  • caricatures
  • chaffs
  • chokes
  • comedies
  • conceits
  • cracks
  • cracks wise
  • deceits
  • deceptions
  • deeds
  • delusions
  • didoes
  • didos
  • disgorges
  • diverts
  • drolleries
  • ejects
  • entertains
  • escapades
  • expels
  • experiences
  • fancies
  • feats
  • fools
  • frauds
  • frolics
  • funnies
  • funs
  • gambits
  • games
  • gibes
  • giggles
  • hanky-pankies
  • hazes
  • heaves
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hoaxes
  • horseplays
  • humors
  • hurls
  • japes
  • jeers
  • jests
  • jibes
  • jives
  • jokes
  • jollies
  • joshes
  • kids
  • knaveries
  • knee-slappers
  • lampoons
  • larks
  • laughs
  • leg-pulls
  • maneuvers
  • missions
  • mockeries
  • mocks
  • monkeyshines
  • nauseates
  • nifties
  • one-liners
  • panics
  • parodies
  • performances
  • persiflages
  • plays
  • pleasantries
  • ploys
  • practical jokes
  • pranks
  • pukes
  • put-ons
  • quips
  • rags
  • railleries
  • rallies
  • razzes
  • regurgitates
  • repartees
  • retches
  • ribs
  • ridicules
  • riffs
  • riots
  • rogueries
  • rowdyisms
  • ruses
  • sallies
  • satirizes
  • screams
  • shams
  • shavies
  • shenanigans
  • shines
  • smothers
  • spews
  • spits up
  • stifles
  • stratagems
  • stunts
  • subterfuges
  • suffocates
  • teases
  • thigh-slappers
  • throws up
  • times
  • tomfooleries
  • trickeries
  • tricks
  • upchucks
  • vagaries
  • vomits
  • waggeries
  • whims
  • whimseys
  • whimsies
  • wiles
  • wisecracks
  • wits
  • witticisms
  • wordplays
  • yaks
  • yocks
  • yucks
  • yuks

machinations

  • amour
  • artifices
  • cabals
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • collusions
  • complicities
  • confederacies
  • connivances
  • conspiracies
  • conspirations
  • contrivances
  • counter-conspiracies
  • counterconspiracies
  • counterplots
  • cover-ups
  • dalliance
  • deception
  • designs
  • devilry
  • dirty pool
  • dodges
  • double-dealing
  • drafts
  • fling
  • flirtation
  • fooling around
  • fourberie
  • frame-ups
  • fraud
  • funny business
  • games
  • gimmicks
  • ground plans
  • hankie-pankie
  • hokey-pokey
  • intrigues
  • knavery
  • liaison
  • love affair
  • maneuvers
  • manipulations
  • mischief
  • monkey business
  • plots
  • programs
  • rackets
  • rings
  • romance
  • schemes
  • sexual activity
  • sharp practice
  • shenanigans
  • skullduggery
  • stratagems
  • strategies
  • subterfuge
  • subterfuges
  • systems
  • trickeries
  • trickery
  • tricks

quarries

  • beasts
  • brutes
  • burrows
  • chases
  • claws
  • creatures
  • critters
  • delves
  • digs
  • digs in
  • dredges
  • excavates
  • games
  • grubs
  • kills
  • mines
  • prey
  • preys
  • scoops
  • shovels
  • spades
  • targets
  • victims

tacks

  • adheres
  • affixes
  • approaches
  • attaches
  • battens
  • belays
  • bends
  • blueprints
  • bolts
  • buttons
  • cinches
  • clamps
  • clasps
  • clenches
  • clinches
  • clips
  • coapts
  • connects
  • designs
  • detours
  • deviates
  • diverges
  • does up
  • expedients
  • fashions
  • fastens
  • fixes
  • forms
  • game plans
  • games
  • glues
  • ground plans
  • hangs
  • harnesses
  • hasps
  • hows
  • intrigues
  • joins
  • laces
  • lashes
  • latches
  • layouts
  • lines
  • links
  • manners
  • methodologies
  • methods
  • models
  • modes
  • modi operandi
  • moves
  • nails
  • pastes
  • pins
  • plans
  • plasters
  • plots
  • policies
  • practices
  • practises
  • processes
  • programs
  • reaffixes
  • reattaches
  • recipes
  • refastens
  • refixes
  • resecures
  • rivets
  • routes
  • routines
  • schemes
  • screws
  • shackles
  • sheers
  • shifts
  • staples
  • steps
  • sticks
  • straps
  • strategies
  • styles
  • swerves
  • swings
  • systems
  • tackles
  • tactics
  • techniques
  • ties
  • toggles
  • turns
  • turns back
  • turns off
  • unites
  • veers
  • ways
  • wheels
  • yokes
  • zigzags

waggeries

  • adventures
  • antics
  • banters
  • boffolas
  • boffos
  • boffs
  • buffooneries
  • burlesques
  • capers
  • capriccios
  • caprices
  • caricatures
  • comedies
  • conceits
  • cracks
  • deceits
  • deceptions
  • deeds
  • delusions
  • didoes
  • didos
  • drolleries
  • escapades
  • experiences
  • fancies
  • feats
  • frauds
  • frolics
  • funnies
  • gags
  • gambits
  • games
  • giggles
  • hanky-pankies
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hoaxes
  • horseplays
  • humors
  • japes
  • jests
  • jokes
  • joshes
  • knaveries
  • knee-slappers
  • lampoons
  • larks
  • laughs
  • leg-pulls
  • maneuvers
  • missions
  • mockeries
  • mocks
  • monkeyshines
  • nifties
  • one-liners
  • panics
  • parodies
  • performances
  • persiflages
  • plays
  • pleasantries
  • ploys
  • practical jokes
  • pranks
  • put-ons
  • quips
  • rags
  • railleries
  • repartees
  • ribs
  • riffs
  • riots
  • rogueries
  • rowdyisms
  • ruses
  • sallies
  • screams
  • shams
  • shavies
  • shenanigans
  • shines
  • stratagems
  • stunts
  • subterfuges
  • thigh-slappers
  • times
  • tomfooleries
  • trickeries
  • tricks
  • vagaries
  • whims
  • whimseys
  • whimsies
  • wiles
  • wisecracks
  • wits
  • witticisms
  • wordplays
  • yaks
  • yocks
  • yucks
  • yuks

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