(poker) A game where the chips directly represent money and players are free to leave at any time, in contrast to a poker tournament.

plural of ring game

(sports or figuratively) Critical and having the potential to alter the overall outcome.

The commentary of sportscasters after a professional sports event.

Of or pertaining to the time after a sports game, especially the commentary of sportscasters after a professional game.

(US, sports) An athletic contest played in the opposing team's geographic area.

A game in which the players' decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome, such as chess, checkers or go.

(US, informal) Activities which exclude outsiders.

(game theory) Informally, a game formalized using a function (called the characteristic function) that assigns to each coalition of players a real number representing the payoff that the coalition can gain if it is formed, without specifying how the outcome is divided among the participants of the coalition; upon the execution of the game, each player can be a member of at most one coalition.

(idiomatic, sports) An athletic contest played in a team's own geographic area.