round game

noun

A game where each player plays for himself or herself, without teams or partners.

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Meanings

nounround game (plural round games)

plural round games

  1. A game where each player plays for himself or herself, without teams or partners.

    [T]he merry company flocked into the King's House, to dance again and drink tea, and make more love, and play round games, and joke, and sing songs, and eat supper under old Colonel Stafford's snug and kindly roof-tree.

    1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-making is Kept Up by Candle-light in the King’s House, and Lily Receives a Warning Which She Does Not Comprehend”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 251
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