Collocations withgame
These are words often used in combination withgame.
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all-star game
It acted as an all-star game for rookies.
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away game
Any person would, of course, be allowed to drive away game from his holding.
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baseball game
On the other side of the continuum would be, for example, intense focus during batting at a baseball game.
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basketball game
The teachers' pleas for calm were greeted with cheers that would not have been out of place at a basketball game.
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bingo game
It may be that people want to get into the bingo game and things of that sort because it is another licence to print money.
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bowl game
The bowl was the first of 35 played in the 201213 bowl game season.
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cat-and-mouse game
This cat-and-mouse game is over.
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consecutive game
Freeman had another consecutive game without throwing an interception.
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deciding game
The final game of the season would become the deciding game to see who would make the playoffs.
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elimination game
The first half of the game is an elimination game featuring two contestants and two celebrity guests.
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final game
The final game was a rushed project.
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game designer
He was better known as a video game designer but was studying literature.
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game developer
Video game developer a software developer (a business or an individual) that creates video games.
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game mechanic
The moral of the story is slow and steady wins the race which is incorporated in the game mechanic.
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game warden
It is a mixture of shelter marshal and game warden.
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guessing game
To some degree, therefore, the managers are involved in little more than a guessing game.
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hockey game
A competitive hockey player, who was diagnosed at age 24, described his coping strategy as a hockey game.
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homecoming game
Now it only marches at the homecoming game.
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kicking game
Throughout the game, both teams played a kicking game, punting on second or third down and hoping for a break.
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lacrosse game
The rules of women's lacrosse are very complicated, and very different from the men's lacrosse game.
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low-scoring game
Because association football is a relatively low-scoring game, it is common for one team, or even both teams, to score no goals.
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multiplayer game
Single player, local multiplayer and online multiplayer game modes are available.
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non-conference game
Since then, the annual non-conference game is always a measure of pride for both schools.
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online game
We shall soon show that the threshold for the length of the online game is in fact much smaller.
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passing game
The passing game takes about three hours.
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pinball game
Like any pinball game, the main objective is to get points, using the different modes of advances to score them at a higher rate.
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playoff game
Players on a winning team received a bonus of $2,500 for the week, $7,500 for winning a playoff game.
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poker game
They have been playing a kind of poker game.
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post-season game
In 1995 and 1996, the game was played as a post-season game.
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preseason game
No preseason game was played in this series for 2009.
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racing game
The main problem is that the racing game is all about money.
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rivalry game
He is encouraged — indeed, in some instances, coerced — to continue to play the old-fashioned inter-service rivalry game.
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role-playing game
Using discourse analytic analyses, the author outlines the constellation of technology-mediated literacy activities that make up successful play for this online role-playing game.
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run game
The run game was pitiful and the offensive line was porous.
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running game
In simple terms, it means a focus on the running game, with passing used only to further the running game.
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soccer game
My having a series of soccer games ahead of me does not affect my nearly complete immersion in this current soccer game.
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softball game
Following the conclusion of the telecast, the network aired a slow-pitch softball game along with other programming, including wrestling and college soccer.
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tabletop game
Combat itself followed the rules devised by the tabletop game.
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title game
Led team with 18 points in the title game vs.
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trivia game
The trivia game is available to play at any time.
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winter game
I was speaking about the feeling of the professionals about this discrimination between the summer game of cricket and the winter game of soccer.
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