Definition of "gaming"

gaming

/ˈɡeɪmɪŋ/

verb
1. present participle and gerund of game
noun
countable and uncountable, plural gamings
1. The playing of a game or games, including but not limited to video games and games of chance.
  Quotations
  […] the unprofitable plays, frivolous recreations, sportings, and gamings which are invented to pass away the precious time, and divert the mind from the witness of God […]
  1678, Robert Barclay, An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
  The US gaming industry, in a pamphlet called Demystifying Slot Machines […], argues that "slot manufacturers need to build devices for a society with a decreasing attention span and an increasing demand for exciting, fast-paced entertainment, all in a marketplace overflowing with competing entertainment options".
  2013 June 28, Tom Vanderbilt, “The lose-lose logic of the machine zone”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 3, page 29
  1. Ellipsis of videogaming.
  2. Synonym of gambling
2. Careful, strategic use of rules to achieve one's purposes, as one would use the rules of a game.