What's the difference between frolic and game?

Frolic


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
  • (n.) A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.
  • (n.) A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.
  • (v. i.) To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This is not a time to be engaged in a frolic,” he says.
  • (2) If ministers have ordered the public service to pursue this anti-democratic frolic it’s a clear abuse of power.
  • (3) Known for his flamboyant verbal attacks and overturning even the largest electoral majorities of his opponents, he has taken in everything from US senate committee hearings to feline frolics in Celebrity Big Brother.
  • (4) The flicker and dazzle was conducive to hallucinatory drugs and the hi-tech fun 'n' frolics found the perfect interzone between futurism and regression to childhood.
  • (5) Even then a madcap day was not done with folly and frolic as France, on their own line, 20 points down and with nothing at all to gain, tapped and ran.
  • (6) Instead of a sober inquisitorial process it descended into an adversarial attack, and instead of a search for the truth we witnessed taxpayer-funded lawyers on a frolic, cross-examining police officers as if they were on trial.” King cited the cross-examination of a senior police commander as an example of lawyers “twisting words” and grandstanding to the media.
  • (7) The indulgence of knights and dames: nostalgia for empire, a frolic that does nothing beyond telling voters Abbott is too in love with the past to understand the future.
  • (8) Girls laugh and frolic joyfully in the water, their brightly coloured jilbabs soaking as the tide comes in.
  • (9) Look at it again, if you doubt me - he's the heart and head of the picture, and he is delighted to realise that North By Northwest is a frolic, a dance in mid-air, a fabulous absurdity.
  • (10) If he responds that it has been a thrill to be the first Liberal in many, many decades to be entitled deputy prime minister, then he will expose himself to the accusation that he is on a power frolic while thousands of voters are suffering the effects of spending cuts, tax rises and job losses.
  • (11) Hours later a criminal case relating to Mr Skuratov's alleged sexual frolics was opened, which was used as the basis for Mr Yeltsin's decree ordering his suspension.
  • (12) When I was a minister, I would never have countenanced my chief of staff going to such a meeting without my imprimatur and my approval so I think a question does need to be answered whether the chief of staff was there on a frolic of his own or with the imprimatur of the deputy leader.
  • (13) As the transfer window gasps and sweats its way through the usual high-summer Sahara of inanity there is a newfound starchiness about Spurs’ recruitment, a rolling back from all the fun and frolic towards the youth-oriented austerity promised by Daniel Levy in the spring.
  • (14) Brooke, more deeply confused than ever, composed a poem, Beauty on Beauty, celebrating their moonlit frolics, but when he was alone with Gardner, his compliments were at best ambiguous.
  • (15) Tony Abbott will spend the early part of the coming week in a targeted outreach effort with ethnic minorities in Sydney and Melbourne in an effort to build local support for the Coalition’s counter-terrorism measures, and also soothe a grassroots backlash prompted by the government’s early frolic on hate speech.
  • (16) He is an opposition politician.” Another government minister said Farage was clearly “on a frolic of his own”, adding that high-level visits were already being planned.
  • (17) Paragliders sail overhead, children frolic in the shallow waves and a camel train carrying sunburned Europeans ambles down Sousse beach as the sun hits its midday peak.
  • (18) You can still work while the little ones frolic in the sand.
  • (19) The first surgical anesthetics were a consequence of the resulting student "ether frolics."
  • (20) The Australian Council of Trade Unions condemned the “narrow” terms of reference, saying the government had “embarked on a $100m frolic which is aimed at damaging unions”.

Game


Definition:

  • (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg.
  • (v. i.) Sport of any kind; jest, frolic.
  • (v. i.) A contest, physical or mental, according to certain rules, for amusement, recreation, or for winning a stake; as, a game of chance; games of skill; field games, etc.
  • (v. i.) The use or practice of such a game; a single match at play; a single contest; as, a game at cards.
  • (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game.
  • (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest.
  • (v. i.) A scheme or art employed in the pursuit of an object or purpose; method of procedure; projected line of operations; plan; project.
  • (v. i.) Animals pursued and taken by sportsmen; wild meats designed for, or served at, table.
  • (a.) Having a resolute, unyielding spirit, like the gamecock; ready to fight to the last; plucky.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to such animals as are hunted for game, or to the act or practice of hunting.
  • (n.) To rejoice; to be pleased; -- often used, in Old English, impersonally with dative.
  • (n.) To play at any sport or diversion.
  • (n.) To play for a stake or prize; to use cards, dice, billiards, or other instruments, according to certain rules, with a view to win money or other thing waged upon the issue of the contest; to gamble.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Recent data collected by the Games Outcomes Project and shared on the website Gamasutra backs up the view that crunch compounds these problems rather than solving them.
  • (2) For viewers in the US, you get the worst possible in-game managerial interview in Mike Matheny, one that's so bad, it's actually great!
  • (3) Video games specialist Game was teetering on the brink of collapse on Friday after a rescue deal put forward by private equity firm OpCapita appeared to have been given the cold shoulder by lenders who are owed more than £100m.
  • (4) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
  • (5) I think he had been saying all season that with three or four games to go he will tell us where we are.
  • (6) Well I think [that’s] because we’ve made changes in the game,” said Goodell.
  • (7) When you have been out for a month you need to prepare properly before you come back.” Pellegrini will make his own assessment of Kompany’s fitness before deciding whether to play him in the Bournemouth game, which he is careful to stress may not be the foregone conclusion the league table might suggest.
  • (8) There was also acknowledgement for two long-term servants to the men’s game who will both leave the Premier League for Major League Soccer this summer.
  • (9) I just know that in that moment he’s not in condition to carry on in the game.
  • (10) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (11) The purposes of this study were to locate games and simulations available for nursing education, to categorize these materials to make them more accessible for nurse educators, and to determine how nursing's use of instructional games might be enhanced.
  • (12) The Sports Network broadcasts live NHL, Nascar, golf and horse racing – having also recently purchased the rights for Formula One – and will show 154 of the 196 games that NBC will cover.
  • (13) He missed the start of the season while rehabbing from last season's ankle injury, played exactly six games with the Los Angeles Lakers before getting hurt again and even if he's healthy he may still sit the game out .
  • (14) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (15) You wanted a close game late, this is a close game late.
  • (16) Martin O’Neill spoke of his satisfaction at the Republic of Ireland’s score draw in the first leg of their Euro 2016 play-off against Bosnia-Herzegovina – and of his relief that the match was not abandoned despite the dense fog that descended in the second half and threatened to turn the game into a farce.
  • (17) I didn’t come here to play games – I wrote to all my friends and family because I might not see them again,” he told Al-Aan.
  • (18) This is just another game in the park to him, isn’t it?
  • (19) In fact, the lowest-rated game of last year's World Series between the Giants and the Tigers edged out the opening round of the draft by only 2.4 million viewers.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Looking on as his Bolton side take on Besiktas during their Uefa Cup group game in Istanbul, Turkey.