gaming

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The playing of a game.

   […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]

2. 2
   noun

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

3. 3
   verb

   present participle and gerund of game

4. 4
   noun

   Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.