game fish

1. 1.

   any fish providing sport for the angler

   Synonymssport fish

   Broaderfish

Questions about game fish

What does game fish mean?

game fish means "any fish providing sport for the angler".

What is another word for game fish?

Close synonyms include sport fish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is game fish a common word?

game fish is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.