Game

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A game is an (often, but not always s that determines what the players can or can not do. Games are played primarily for Entertainment or Enjoyment , but may also serve as Exercise or in an Education al, Simulation al or Psychological role. Group leaders will also use games for other following purposes, such as ego-boundary or group boundary creation/ altering, or mood control. Since games can generate a higher and less cognitive arousal level, they are useful after a large meal or a long and tedious task, but are not good for pre- Sleep needs.

Although games have been played since prehistoric times, much of our understanding about them remains Speculative .

ETYMOLOGY

Game is a common Teutonic word, in 0ld English gamen, in O.H.G. gaman, but only appears in modern usage outside English in Danish gam men and Swedish gammon. The ulterior derivation is obscure, but philologists have identified it with the Goth. goman, companion or companionship; if this be so, it is compounded of the prefix ga-, with, and the root seen in man. Apart from its primary and general meaning the word has two specific applications, first to a contest played as a recreation or as an exhibition of skill, in accordance with rules and regulations; and, secondly, to those wild animals which are the objects of the chase, and their flesh as used for food, distinguished as such from meat, fish and poultry, and from the flesh of deer, to which the name venison is given. For game, from the legal aspect, and the laws relating to its pursuit and capture see Game Law . The athletic contests of the ancient Greeks (~y~v~) and the public shows (ludi) of the arena and amphitheatre of the ancient Romans are treated below (GAMES, CLASSICAL); the various forms of modern games, indoor and outdoor, whether of skill, strength or chance, are dealt with under their specific titles. A special use (gaming or gambling) restricts the term to the playing of games for money, or to betting and wagering on the results of events, as in horse-racing, &c. (see GAMING AND WAGERING). Gamble, gambler and gambling appear very late in English. The earliest quotations in the New English Dictionary for the three words are dated 1775, 5747 and 1784 respectively. They were first regarded as cant or slang words, and implied a reproach, either as referring to cheats or sharpers, or to those who played recklessly for extravagant stakes. The form of the words is obscure, but is supposed to represent a local variation gammle of the Middle English gamenian. From this word must, of course, be distinguished gambol, to sport or to frisk, which, as the older forms (gambald, gambaud) show, is from the French gambade, leap, jump, of a horse, Italian gambado, gamba, leg (Modern French jambe).

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