gamesy

comparative more gamesy · superlative most gamesy

1. Involving or characteristic of games; playful, sporty, etc.

   The highlight of such occasions was the "cotillion," a gamesy ritual for selecting partners that took its name from a frisky old French folk dance called the cotillon, or "petticoat."

   1965, William Iversen, O the Times! O the Manners!, page 210

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   Roedean's houses were (and still are) called House 1, House 2, House 3 and House 4, which somehow suit a gamesy school on a cliff above Brighton, whereas the houses at Queen Ethelberga's, Harrogate were Auras and Evacuations.

   2017, Ysenda Maxtone Graham, Terms & Conditions: Life in Girls' Boarding Schools, 1939-1979