Phrase guide

video game

noun · verb · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈvɪdiːəʊ̯ˌɡeɪm/
  • General-American: /ˈvɪdioʊ̯ˌɡeɪm/
  • General-American: /ˈvɪdjoʊˌɡeɪm/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -eɪm

1

noun

Meaning 1

A type of game, existing as and controlled by software, usually run by a video game console or a computer, played on a monitor or television screen, and controlled by a joypad, joystick, keyboard, mouse, touchscreen or paddle.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • My uncle’s favorite video game is Minecraft.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

verb

Meaning 2

To play video games.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

a game played against a computer

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: computer game

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: game

Narrower terms: virtual reality

History

Etymology

From video + game.

Across languages

Translations

129 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Afrikaans: videospeletjie — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Albanian: video lojë — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Arabic: لَعْبَةْ فِيدِيُو (laʕbat fīdiyū) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Armenian: համակարգչային խաղ (hamakargčʻayin xaġ) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Armenian: տեսախաղ (tesaxaġ) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Asturian: videoxuegu — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Azerbaijani: videooyun — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Belarusian: камп'ю́тарная гульня́ (kampʺjútarnaja hulʹnjá) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Belarusian: кампу́тарная гульня́ (kampútarnaja hulʹnjá) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Belarusian: відэагульня́ (videahulʹnjá) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Bengali: ভিডিও গেম (bhiḍiō gem) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Breton: c'hoari video — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Bulgarian: видеоигра́ (videoigrá) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Burmese: ဗွီဒီယိုဂိမ်း (bwidiyuigim:) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Burmese: ဗီဒီယိုဂိမ်း (bidiyuigim:) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Catalan: videojoc — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Chinese Cantonese: 視像遊戲 /视像游戏 (si6 zoeng6 jau4 hei3) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Chinese Mandarin: 電子遊戲 /电子游戏 (diànzǐ yóuxì) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Chinese Mandarin: 電腦遊戲 /电脑游戏 (diànnǎo yóuxì) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Corsican: videoghjocu — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Corsican: videughjocu — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Czech: videohra — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Czech: počítačová hra — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Danish: computerspil — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Danish: konsolspil — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Danish: videospil — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Dutch: videospel — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Dutch: videospelletje — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Dutch: game — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Dzongkha: བརྙན་འཁོར་རྩེདམོ (brnyan 'khor rtsedmo) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Esperanto: videoludo — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Estonian: videomäng — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Faroese: telduspøl — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Finnish: videopeli — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • French: jeu vidéo — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • West-Frisian: kompjûterspultsje — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Galician: videoxogo — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Georgian: ვიდეო თამაში (video tamaši) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Georgian: ვიდეოთამაში (videotamaši) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • German: Videospiel — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • German: Computerspiel — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Greek: βιντεοπαιχνίδι (vinteopaichnídi) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Haitian Creole: jwèt videyo — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Hebrew: מִשְׂחַק מַחְשֵׁב (miskhak makhšev) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Hebrew: מִשְׂחַק וִידֵאוֹ (miskhak vide'o) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Hindi: वीडियो गेम (vīḍiyo gem) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Hungarian: videojáték — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Icelandic: tölvuleikur — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Ido: videoludo — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Indonesian: permainan video — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Irish: cluiche físeán — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Irish: físchluiche — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Irish: cluiche físe — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Italian: videogioco — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Italian: videogame — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Japanese: テレビゲーム (terebi gēmu) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Japanese: ビデオゲーム (bideo gēmu) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Japanese: コンピュータゲーム (konpyūta gēmu) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Kazakh: бейне ойын (beine oiyn) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Khmer: ហ្គេមវីដេអូ (geim viideeʼou) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Khmer: វីដេអូហ្គេម (viideeʼou geim) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Khmer: ហ្គេម (geim) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Korean: 비디오 게임 (bidio geim) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Korean: 컴퓨터 게임 (keompyuteo geim) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Northern Kurdish: lîstika vîdyoyê — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Kyrgyz: видео оюн — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Lao: ເກມວິດີໂອ (km dī ʼō) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Lao: ວິດີໂອເກມ (wi dī ʼō kēm) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Latin: lūdus ēlectrōnicus — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Latin: lūdus vīsuālis — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Latvian: videospēle — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Lithuanian: video žaidimas — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Macedonian: видеои́гра (videoígra) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Malay: hibira — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Malay: هيبيرا — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Malay: permainan video — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Malayalam: വീഡിയോ ഗെയിം (vīḍiyō geyiṁ) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Marathi: संगणक खेळ (saṅgṇak kheḷ) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Marathi: व्हिडियो गेम (vhiḍiyo gem) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Mongolian: компьютер тоглоом (kompʹjüter togloom) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Mongolian: видео тоглоом — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Nahuatl: videopatolli — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Nahuatl: tepoztlamahuizoloni patolli — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Classical Nahuatl: chīuhpōhualhuaztli patōlli — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Navajo: ániʼ ííłdinii — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Norwegian Bokmål: videospill — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: videospel — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Occitan: videojòc — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Pashto: ویډیو لوبه — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Iranian Persian: بازیِ رایانِه (bâzi-ye râyâne) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Polish: gra komputerowa — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Polish: gra wideo — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Portuguese: videojogo — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Portuguese: vídeo game — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Romanian: joc video — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Russian: компью́терная игра́ (kompʹjútɛrnaja igrá) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Russian: видеоигра́ (videoigrá) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Scottish Gaelic: geama-bhidio — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Serbo-Croatian: video igra — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Serbo-Croatian: видео игра — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Silesian: kōmputrowy szpil — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Slovak: počítačová hra — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Slovak: videohra — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Slovene: videoigra — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Spanish: juego de video — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Spanish: videojuego — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Swahili: mchezo wa video — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Swedish: tv-spel — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Swedish: dataspel — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Swedish: datorspel — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Swedish: videospel — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Tajik: бозии видеоӣ (bozi-yi videoyi) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Tajik: бозии компютерӣ (bozi-yi kompyuteri) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Tatar: санак уены (sanaq uyını) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Thai: เกมคอมพิวเตอร์ (geem-kɔm-piu-dtə̂ə) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Thai: วิดีโอเกม (wí-dii-oo-geem) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Turkish: bilgisayar oyunu — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Turkmen: wideo oýun — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Ukrainian: відеогра́ (videohrá) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Ukrainian: компью́терна гра (kompʹjúterna hra) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Urdu: وِیڈِیو گیم (vīḍiyo gem) — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Uzbek: kompyuter oʻyin — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Uzbek: video oʻyin — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Vietnamese: trò chơi điện tử — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Vietnamese: trò chơi vi-đê-ô — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Vietnamese: game — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Welsh: gêm fideo — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Zulu: umdlalo we video — type of game existing as and controlled by software
  • Zulu: umdlalo wevidiyo — type of game existing as and controlled by software