Lame vs. Game — What's the Difference?

Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible

A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements.

Marked by pain or rigidness

An activity providing entertainment or amusement; a pastime

Weak or ineffectual

A competitive activity or sport in which players contend with each other according to a set of rules

(Informal) Dull or unsatisfactory

A single instance of such an activity

(Slang) Socially inappropriate; foolish.

Games An organized athletic program or contest

To cause to become lame; cripple.

A period of competition or challenge

A thin metal plate, especially one of the overlapping steel plates in medieval armor.

The total number of points required to win a game

A shiny fabric woven with metallic threads, often of gold or silver.

The score accumulated at any given time in a game

To walk properly because of a problem with one's feet or legs.

The equipment needed for playing certain games

Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect or temporary obstruction of a function.

A particular style or manner of playing a game

(by extension) Hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect.

An active interest or pursuit, especially one involving competitive engagement or adherence to rules

(slang) Unconvincing or unbelievable.

A business or occupation; a line

(slang) Failing to be cool, funny, interesting or relevant.

An illegal activity; a racket.

(transitive) To cause (a person or animal) to become lame.

Evasive, trifling, or manipulative behavior

(prison slang) A stupid or undesirable person.

A calculated strategy or approach; a scheme

A lamina; a thin layer or plate of material, as in certain kinds of armor.

(Mathematics) A model of a competitive situation that identifies interested parties and stipulates rules governing all aspects of the competition, used in game theory to determine the optimal course of action for an interested party.

(in the plural) A set of joined overlapping metal plates.

Wild animals hunted for food or sport.

Kitchen tool for scoring bread dough before baking.

The flesh of these animals, eaten as food.

Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle.

An object of attack, ridicule, or pursuit

Hence, hobbling; limping; inefficient; imperfect; as, a lame answer.

Mockery; sport

To make lame.

To manipulate dishonestly for personal gain; rig

Someone who doesn't understand what is going on

To play for stakes; gamble.

A fabric interwoven with threads of metal;

To play a role-playing or computer game.

Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg;

Plucky and unyielding in spirit; resolute

Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness;

Ready and willing

(of horses) disabled in the feet or legs

Crippled; lame

Disabled in the feet or legs;

A playful or competitive activity.

A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

(countable) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

A school subject during which sports are practised.

(countable) A particular instance of playing a game.

That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.

The number of points necessary to win a game.

(card games) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.

(countable) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.

One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.

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Lovemaking, flirtation.

(slang) Prostitution. (Now chiefly in on the game.)

A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

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

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

(uncountable) wild animals hunted for food.

The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

Mastery; the ability to excel at something.

(countable) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal.

(colloquial) Willing and able 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).

(intransitive) To gamble.

(intransitive) To play card games, board games, or video games.

(transitive) 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.

To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.

Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.

Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.

Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.

A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.

The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.

That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.

In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.

A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.

Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.

To rejoice; to be pleased; - often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.

To play at any sport or diversion.

To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or some other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

A single play of a game;

A contest with rules to determine a winner;

An amusement or pastime;

Animal hunted for food or sport

The game equipment needed to play a game;

Your occupation or line of work;

(games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win;

The flesh of wild animals that is used for food

A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal);

Frivolous or trifling behavior;

Place a bet on;

Disabled in the feet or legs;

Willing to face danger