video game

See also: videogame, video-game, vídeo-game, and vídeo game

English

video game (plural video games)

A type of game existing as and controlled by software, usually run by a video game console or a computer, played on a video terminal or television screen, and controlled by a paddle, joystick, joypad, mouse, or keyboard.
- 2011 October 7, Lana Del Rey; Justin Parker (lyrics and music), “Video Games”, in Born to Die, performed by Lana Del Rey:
  Swinging in the backyard / Pull up in your fast car whistling my name / Open up a beer / And you say get over here and play a video game / […] / I say you the bestest / Lean in for a big kiss, put his favorite perfume on / Go play your video game

game controlled by a software

Afrikaans: videospeletjie
Arabic: لَعْبَة فِيدِيُو‎ f (laʿbat fīdiyū)
Asturian: videoxuegu m
Azerbaijani: video oyun
Bulgarian: видеоигра f (videoigrá)
Catalan: videojoc (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 電子遊戲 (zh), 电子游戏 (zh) (diànzǐ yóuxì), 電腦遊戲, 电脑游戏 (diànnǎo yóuxì)
Classical Nahuatl: chīuhpōhualhuaztli patōlli
Czech: videohra f, počítačová hra f
Danish: computerspil (da) n (computer), konsolspil n (console). videospil n (console, rare)
Dutch: videospel (nl) n, videospelletje (nl) n, game (nl) m
Esperanto: videoludo
Faroese: telduspøl
Finnish: videopeli (fi)
French: jeu vidéo (fr) m, jeux vidéo (fr) pl
Galician: videoxogo m
Georgian: ვიდეო თამაში (video tamaši), ვიდეოთამაში (videotamaši)
German: Videospiel (de) n
Greek: βιντεοπαιχνίδι (el) n (vinteopaichnídi)
Hebrew: משחק מחשב‎ (he) (miskhak makhšev)
Hungarian: videojáték (hu)
Icelandic: tölvuleikur m
Ido: videoludo
Irish: cluiche físeán m, físchluiche m, cluiche físe m
Italian: videogioco (it) sg, videogiochi (it) pl

Japanese: テレビゲーム (terebi gēmu), ビデオゲーム (bideo gēmu)
Kazakh: бейне ойын (beyne oyın)
Korean: 비디오 게임 (bidio geim)
Latin: ludus (la) electronicus, ludus (la) visualis
Lithuanian: video žaidimai
Macedonian: видеоигра f (videoígra)
Malay: permainan video
Marathi: संगणक खेळ m (saṃgaṇaka kheḷa), व्हिडियो गेम m (vhiḍiyo gema)
Navajo: ániʼ ííłdinii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: videospill n

Nynorsk: videospel n
Persian: بازیهای رایانه‎ (bâzihâ-ye râyâne)
Polish: gra wideo f
Portuguese: videojogo (pt) m, vídeo game (pt) m
Romanian: joc video (ro) n, jocuri video n pl
Russian: компью́терная игра́ (ru) f (kompʹjúternaja igrá), видеоигра́ (ru) f (videoigrá)
Serbo-Croatian: видео игра f, video igra f
Spanish: juego de video, videojuego (es)
Swahili: mchezo wa video
Swedish: TV-spel (sv) n, videospel n
Thai: เกมคอมพิวเตอร์
Turkish: bilgisayar oyunları
Vietnamese: trò chơi điện tử
Welsh: 'n fideo herwhela f

Borrowed from English video game.

video game m (plural video games)

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:video game.

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