platformer

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noun

A platform game.

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Meanings

nounplatformer (plural platformers)

plural platformers

  1. informalvideo gamesA platform game.

    Conceptually speaking, the platformer may be the most archetypal video-game genre.

    2010, Tom Bissell, Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 97

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
platform game

Origin

From platform + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

replatform
Cite this entry
APA

platformer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/platformer

MLA

“platformer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/platformer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “platformer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/platformer.

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