Word.ws English Dictionary

telegaming

telegaming noun: the playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.

Noun

telegaming (uncountable)

  1. The playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.
    • A twelve-year-old in Georgia? A grandmother in Walla Walla? But that's interactive telegaming, and I think it's a wave of the future.1984, Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Software Catalog
    • Multiplayer telegaming, game playing with other people over telephone lines, overcomes this obstacle.1985, Jonathan Erickson, William D Cramer, MacTelecommunications

Examples of telegaming in a sentence

  • But there is a lighter side to telecomputing — multiple-player telegaming.1986, Compute:
  • Telegaming has been around for a long time.1999, Julie K Petersen, Data and telecommunications dictionary:

Origin of telegaming

From tele- + gaming.

Questions about telegaming

What does telegaming mean?
Telegaming means the playing of games by two or more distant participants, especially using telecommunications, such as telephony, that predate the Internet.
How do you use telegaming in a sentence?
But there is a lighter side to telecomputing — multiple-player telegaming.
What part of speech is telegaming?
Telegaming is a noun.

Words near telegaming in the dictionary

  1. telefutures
  2. teleg
  3. teleg.
  4. telega
  5. telegambling
  6. telegaming
  7. telegas
  8. telegenesis
  9. telegenetic
  10. telegenetics
  11. telegenic

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: telegaming (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “telegaming.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/telegaming. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.