video game

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   a game played against a computer

   Synonymscomputer game

   Broadergame

   Narrowervirtual reality

Questions about video game

What does video game mean?

video game means "a game played against a computer".

What is another word for video game?

Close synonyms include computer game. 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 video game a common word?

video game is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.