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means An activity played for fun or competition, governed by rules that everyone agrees to pretend matter enormously.

from From Old English 'gamen' meaning joy, fun, or amusement, with roots stretching back to a Germanic base shared by words for merriment and even 'gaman' (to be joyful) — the same ancient family that gives Dutch 'gamen.' The sense narrowed over centuries from general mirth to organized play with rules, and later to targets of the hunt ('fair game'), but the oldest heartbeat of the word was simply delight.