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gameplaying

gameplaying noun: the playing of games.

Noun

gameplaying (uncountable)

  1. The playing of games.
  2. The act of playing the game, playing along, doing what is expected.
    • Privilege is a smokescreen, the carrot on the stick to the donkey. The cold hard fact is that no amount of game-playing will ever make us acceptable to non-gays.1981 December 5, David L. Cawley, “Those Were The Days”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 20, page 14

Origin of gameplaying

From game + playing.

Questions about gameplaying

What does gameplaying mean?
Gameplaying means the playing of games.
What part of speech is gameplaying?
Gameplaying is a noun.

Words near gameplaying in the dictionary

  1. gameplan
  2. gameplans
  3. gameplay
  4. gameplayer
  5. gameplayers
  6. gameplaying
  7. gameplays
  8. gameplaywise
  9. gameport
  10. gameports
  11. gamer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gameplaying (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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