Definition of war game in English:

war game

noun

1A military exercise carried out to test or improve tactical expertise.
军事演习
Example sentencesExamples
- Helicopters rumbled overhead and gunfire crackled as a military unit engaged in a war game under the gaze of a crowd dotted with military uniforms.
- North Korea says the situation is deteriorating and nearing the brink of nuclear conflict, with the US and South Korea exercising war games in the area.
- They called for a halt to the war game to invade the North, including the Stryker Brigade Combat Team's drill in South Korea, and signing of a nonaggression treaty with the North.
- In 1984, I participated in a war game featuring a Cessna rigged with a tiny nuke and flown by a suicide pilot.
- A rare war game will be held next month simulating a terrorist attack on Taipei, officials said yesterday.
- That's because Fidel Castro's government is telling the Cuban people that the war games are intended to deter what could be an imminent U.S. invasion of the island.
- Members from all branches of the Army participated in a week-long war game to help dictate the future of the Signal Corps.
- Also joining the war games are ships and personnel from Canada, Holland, Germany, Peru, Norway, Italy, Denmark, France and Australia.
- These tactics have been a routine ingredient of every major Army war game for the past five years.
- At that time, the Central Command had what they called an exercise, a war game, called ‘Internal Luck.’
- The war game identified the direct linkages between raw material sources, production capacity and the employment and sustainment of combat systems.
- During the war game, the S - 1 should brief casualty estimates and you should brief the medical concept of support for these estimates by phase.
- The newspaper also said a large-scale joint-force war game will be conducted in the ‘near future’ following training that has lasted almost two months.
- The most recent US command-and-control exercise, conducted last month, was a war game simulating a US invasion of Iran in 2007.
- Even now, Gardiner said after the war game, the military sees post-conflict operations as peripheral to its duties.
- Japan's army and US Marines will conduct joint war games early next year simulating the retaking of an isolated island captured by an enemy - the first exercise of its kind by the two militaries, a news report said yesterday.
- THE US spent £165 million on the biggest war game in military history earlier this month.
- There are two components to a war game: field exercises and command post exercises.
- Several senior officers attended war game training recently aimed at improving logistical concepts and improving capability development.
- Central Command held a major war game Oct.4 and 5 to test Gen. Franks' plan.
Synonyms
training exercises, exercises, war games, operations
1. 1.1 A simulated military conflict carried out as a game, leisure activity, or exercise in personal development.
  战争游戏
  Example sentencesExamples
  After spending a couple of months with WarBirds III, I can definitely see the appeal in this multi-player online war game.
  Ultimately it is the American audience that today's war games are developed for, so the ‘gung-ho’ attitude you object to is sadly nothing new.
  I like flight simulators and mission-based war games.
  Battle of Britain is a war game for the personal computer from noted designer Gary Grigsby.
  This last group of lots consisted of war games and European-style board games.
  Every year our games club has an auction, most of which are war games.
  There are a handful of games for children, a seemingly endless series of rehashes of Victorian parlor games, war games, and that's it.
  Today there is a much more diversified selection of games available, from war games to Eurogames.
  They are also organising a paintball war game for deaf and hearing members.
  It was a war game based on the American Civil War.
  The new group took part in paintball war games, held at a remote bush property two hours drive south of Perth.
  Despite its faults, it provides the best mix of playability and serious simulation yet seen in a computer war game.
  The main activities of Magic Mon are computer gaming, card games, board games and war games.
  Others, particularly fans of war games, see games as a simulation, a way to reproduce reality.
  Soldiers of Liberty combines the depth of a squad based game with the intensity of an action-packed war game that unfolds in the streets, subways, and buildings of the city.
  This game is played like the traditional war game.
  Desai said games could cover a wide range of possibilities from role playing and adventure to simulation, sports, war games and ‘edutainment’ that blends learning and playing.
  Using a newly built electronic command post, Franks and his thousand-strong team of US and British staff officers will fight a sophisticated electronic war game which will simulate a campaign against Iraq.
  Have you seen the ads for the latest batch of simulated war games?
  Actually, it took the combination of squad based elements and first person shooting to innovate the war game with last year's award winning Call of Duty.

verb

[with object]war-gameNorth American

Engage in (a campaign or course of action) using the strategies of a war game.
〈美〉（用军事演习策略）对（活动，行动）进行模拟演练
there seemed to be no point war-gaming an election 15 months away
提前15个月演练选举活动似乎没什么意义。
Example sentencesExamples
- No team was assigned to diligently unearth the plan's shortfalls or over-sights - or to thoroughly war-game the various courses of action while planners considered and developed them.
- His campaign consultants had certainly war-gamed and story-conferenced the issue to death.
- Military strategists use models to simulate the course of battles and wars under various scenarios; indeed, the Iraq War was war-gamed long before the fighting began.
- They then must war-game different scenarios to ensure that the goal is realistic and that it has a 10-percent overage of all stocks to compensate for any deficiencies in planning.
- The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against.
- The Army has war-gamed the forward-basing problem.
- In 1994, James F. Dunnigan and I war-gamed several Indo-Pakistan war scenarios for a commercial project.

Derivatives

war-gamer

noun

At that point, fear war-gamers, Pakistani planners would seriously consider a nuclear response.
Example sentencesExamples
- In the most notorious instance, when Van Riper knocked out several US navy vessels in the Persian Gulf with suicide speed boat attacks, the war-gamers stopped the exercise and ‘re-floated’ the ships.
- If a thriller novelist or war-gamer thinks of a particular terrorist operation, I fear there's a decent chance that a dedicated terrorist has already tried or is attempting to execute it.

war-gaming

nounˈwɔːɡeɪmɪŋˈwôrˌɡāmiNG

1The action of playing a war game as a leisure activity or exercise in personal development.
战争游戏
We also have an extensive program of experimentation, simulation, war-gaming and analysis, which looks at the future environment.
Mann includes a stunning, disturbing chapter about the war-gaming during the presidency of Ronald Reagan.
There has to be lots of war-gaming - hiring consultants to see if they can infiltrate the enemy and find out its weaknesses.
Example sentencesExamples
- Unfortunately, the use of wargaming in the American military is not universal.
- We believe those experts can be developed and nurtured through the time-tested practice of wargaming - particularly if they learn, along the way, that you can't win 'em all.
1. 1.1 The action of engaging in a campaign or course of action using the strategies of a military exercise.
  〈美〉（用军事演习策略）对（活动，行动）进行模拟演练
  Example sentencesExamples
  Germany was a centre of wargaming in its nascent stages with Prussian reliance on wargames in planning attacks right up until the Great War.
  This article promotes wargaming as an innovative tool for achieving successful war-fighting strategies.
  Time permitting, the aviation battalion commander provided guidance before going into the course of action development and wargaming.
  Soviet wargaming could not adjudicate the strategic impacts of air power.
  Yet, the scope of naval wargaming always seemed beyond its latest system.
  The interesting mix of military history and wargaming is important to the profession of arms.
  Then some years later wargaming would be formally adopted by that country's military.
  The strength of wargaming lies in exploring alternatives and enhancing insights into likely courses of action, not in providing quantitative results.
  This concept has been used by the military for decades primarily in wargaming.
  Like in earlier wargames, the rigors of wargaming changed expectations of a war with the Soviets.
  From this brief survey of wargaming, we can see wargaming has affected history and military operations.

Definition of war game in US English:

war game

nounˈwôr ˌɡāmˈwɔr ˌɡeɪm

1A military exercise carried out to test or improve tactical expertise.
军事演习
Example sentencesExamples
- In 1984, I participated in a war game featuring a Cessna rigged with a tiny nuke and flown by a suicide pilot.
- During the war game, the S - 1 should brief casualty estimates and you should brief the medical concept of support for these estimates by phase.
- Helicopters rumbled overhead and gunfire crackled as a military unit engaged in a war game under the gaze of a crowd dotted with military uniforms.
- North Korea says the situation is deteriorating and nearing the brink of nuclear conflict, with the US and South Korea exercising war games in the area.
- Central Command held a major war game Oct.4 and 5 to test Gen. Franks' plan.
- THE US spent £165 million on the biggest war game in military history earlier this month.
- Members from all branches of the Army participated in a week-long war game to help dictate the future of the Signal Corps.
- They called for a halt to the war game to invade the North, including the Stryker Brigade Combat Team's drill in South Korea, and signing of a nonaggression treaty with the North.
- There are two components to a war game: field exercises and command post exercises.
- That's because Fidel Castro's government is telling the Cuban people that the war games are intended to deter what could be an imminent U.S. invasion of the island.
- Several senior officers attended war game training recently aimed at improving logistical concepts and improving capability development.
- A rare war game will be held next month simulating a terrorist attack on Taipei, officials said yesterday.
- At that time, the Central Command had what they called an exercise, a war game, called ‘Internal Luck.’
- Also joining the war games are ships and personnel from Canada, Holland, Germany, Peru, Norway, Italy, Denmark, France and Australia.
- Japan's army and US Marines will conduct joint war games early next year simulating the retaking of an isolated island captured by an enemy - the first exercise of its kind by the two militaries, a news report said yesterday.
- Even now, Gardiner said after the war game, the military sees post-conflict operations as peripheral to its duties.
- The most recent US command-and-control exercise, conducted last month, was a war game simulating a US invasion of Iran in 2007.
- The newspaper also said a large-scale joint-force war game will be conducted in the ‘near future’ following training that has lasted almost two months.
- The war game identified the direct linkages between raw material sources, production capacity and the employment and sustainment of combat systems.
- These tactics have been a routine ingredient of every major Army war game for the past five years.
Synonyms
training exercises, exercises, war games, operations
1. 1.1 A simulated military conflict carried out as a game, leisure activity, or exercise in personal development.
  战争游戏
  Example sentencesExamples
  It was a war game based on the American Civil War.
  After spending a couple of months with WarBirds III, I can definitely see the appeal in this multi-player online war game.
  The main activities of Magic Mon are computer gaming, card games, board games and war games.
  Despite its faults, it provides the best mix of playability and serious simulation yet seen in a computer war game.
  Soldiers of Liberty combines the depth of a squad based game with the intensity of an action-packed war game that unfolds in the streets, subways, and buildings of the city.
  Actually, it took the combination of squad based elements and first person shooting to innovate the war game with last year's award winning Call of Duty.
  There are a handful of games for children, a seemingly endless series of rehashes of Victorian parlor games, war games, and that's it.
  This last group of lots consisted of war games and European-style board games.
  Desai said games could cover a wide range of possibilities from role playing and adventure to simulation, sports, war games and ‘edutainment’ that blends learning and playing.
  The new group took part in paintball war games, held at a remote bush property two hours drive south of Perth.
  Using a newly built electronic command post, Franks and his thousand-strong team of US and British staff officers will fight a sophisticated electronic war game which will simulate a campaign against Iraq.
  I like flight simulators and mission-based war games.
  Others, particularly fans of war games, see games as a simulation, a way to reproduce reality.
  Today there is a much more diversified selection of games available, from war games to Eurogames.
  Ultimately it is the American audience that today's war games are developed for, so the ‘gung-ho’ attitude you object to is sadly nothing new.
  Have you seen the ads for the latest batch of simulated war games?
  They are also organising a paintball war game for deaf and hearing members.
  Battle of Britain is a war game for the personal computer from noted designer Gary Grigsby.
  Every year our games club has an auction, most of which are war games.
  This game is played like the traditional war game.

verbˈwôr ˌɡāmˈwɔr ˌɡeɪm

[with object]war-gameNorth American

Engage in (a campaign or course of action) using the strategies of a war game.
〈美〉（用军事演习策略）对（活动，行动）进行模拟演练
there seemed to be no point war-gaming an election 15 months away
提前15个月演练选举活动似乎没什么意义。
Example sentencesExamples
- His campaign consultants had certainly war-gamed and story-conferenced the issue to death.
- The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against.
- No team was assigned to diligently unearth the plan's shortfalls or over-sights - or to thoroughly war-game the various courses of action while planners considered and developed them.
- Military strategists use models to simulate the course of battles and wars under various scenarios; indeed, the Iraq War was war-gamed long before the fighting began.
- The Army has war-gamed the forward-basing problem.
- In 1994, James F. Dunnigan and I war-gamed several Indo-Pakistan war scenarios for a commercial project.
- They then must war-game different scenarios to ensure that the goal is realistic and that it has a 10-percent overage of all stocks to compensate for any deficiencies in planning.

单词	war game
释义	Definition of war game in English: war game noun 1A military exercise carried out to test or improve tactical expertise. 军事演习 Example sentencesExamples Helicopters rumbled overhead and gunfire crackled as a military unit engaged in a war game under the gaze of a crowd dotted with military uniforms. North Korea says the situation is deteriorating and nearing the brink of nuclear conflict, with the US and South Korea exercising war games in the area. They called for a halt to the war game to invade the North, including the Stryker Brigade Combat Team's drill in South Korea, and signing of a nonaggression treaty with the North. In 1984, I participated in a war game featuring a Cessna rigged with a tiny nuke and flown by a suicide pilot. A rare war game will be held next month simulating a terrorist attack on Taipei, officials said yesterday. That's because Fidel Castro's government is telling the Cuban people that the war games are intended to deter what could be an imminent U.S. invasion of the island. Members from all branches of the Army participated in a week-long war game to help dictate the future of the Signal Corps. Also joining the war games are ships and personnel from Canada, Holland, Germany, Peru, Norway, Italy, Denmark, France and Australia. These tactics have been a routine ingredient of every major Army war game for the past five years. At that time, the Central Command had what they called an exercise, a war game, called ‘Internal Luck.’ The war game identified the direct linkages between raw material sources, production capacity and the employment and sustainment of combat systems. During the war game, the S - 1 should brief casualty estimates and you should brief the medical concept of support for these estimates by phase. The newspaper also said a large-scale joint-force war game will be conducted in the ‘near future’ following training that has lasted almost two months. The most recent US command-and-control exercise, conducted last month, was a war game simulating a US invasion of Iran in 2007. Even now, Gardiner said after the war game, the military sees post-conflict operations as peripheral to its duties. Japan's army and US Marines will conduct joint war games early next year simulating the retaking of an isolated island captured by an enemy - the first exercise of its kind by the two militaries, a news report said yesterday. THE US spent £165 million on the biggest war game in military history earlier this month. There are two components to a war game: field exercises and command post exercises. Several senior officers attended war game training recently aimed at improving logistical concepts and improving capability development. Central Command held a major war game Oct.4 and 5 to test Gen. Franks' plan. Synonyms training exercises, exercises, war games, operations 1.1 A simulated military conflict carried out as a game, leisure activity, or exercise in personal development. 战争游戏 Example sentencesExamples After spending a couple of months with WarBirds III, I can definitely see the appeal in this multi-player online war game. Ultimately it is the American audience that today's war games are developed for, so the ‘gung-ho’ attitude you object to is sadly nothing new. I like flight simulators and mission-based war games. Battle of Britain is a war game for the personal computer from noted designer Gary Grigsby. This last group of lots consisted of war games and European-style board games. Every year our games club has an auction, most of which are war games. There are a handful of games for children, a seemingly endless series of rehashes of Victorian parlor games, war games, and that's it. Today there is a much more diversified selection of games available, from war games to Eurogames. They are also organising a paintball war game for deaf and hearing members. It was a war game based on the American Civil War. The new group took part in paintball war games, held at a remote bush property two hours drive south of Perth. Despite its faults, it provides the best mix of playability and serious simulation yet seen in a computer war game. The main activities of Magic Mon are computer gaming, card games, board games and war games. Others, particularly fans of war games, see games as a simulation, a way to reproduce reality. Soldiers of Liberty combines the depth of a squad based game with the intensity of an action-packed war game that unfolds in the streets, subways, and buildings of the city. This game is played like the traditional war game. Desai said games could cover a wide range of possibilities from role playing and adventure to simulation, sports, war games and ‘edutainment’ that blends learning and playing. Using a newly built electronic command post, Franks and his thousand-strong team of US and British staff officers will fight a sophisticated electronic war game which will simulate a campaign against Iraq. Have you seen the ads for the latest batch of simulated war games? Actually, it took the combination of squad based elements and first person shooting to innovate the war game with last year's award winning Call of Duty. verb [with object]war-gameNorth American Engage in (a campaign or course of action) using the strategies of a war game. 〈美〉（用军事演习策略）对（活动，行动）进行模拟演练 there seemed to be no point war-gaming an election 15 months away 提前15个月演练选举活动似乎没什么意义。 Example sentencesExamples No team was assigned to diligently unearth the plan's shortfalls or over-sights - or to thoroughly war-game the various courses of action while planners considered and developed them. His campaign consultants had certainly war-gamed and story-conferenced the issue to death. Military strategists use models to simulate the course of battles and wars under various scenarios; indeed, the Iraq War was war-gamed long before the fighting began. They then must war-game different scenarios to ensure that the goal is realistic and that it has a 10-percent overage of all stocks to compensate for any deficiencies in planning. The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against. The Army has war-gamed the forward-basing problem. In 1994, James F. Dunnigan and I war-gamed several Indo-Pakistan war scenarios for a commercial project. Derivatives war-gamer noun At that point, fear war-gamers, Pakistani planners would seriously consider a nuclear response. Example sentencesExamples In the most notorious instance, when Van Riper knocked out several US navy vessels in the Persian Gulf with suicide speed boat attacks, the war-gamers stopped the exercise and ‘re-floated’ the ships. If a thriller novelist or war-gamer thinks of a particular terrorist operation, I fear there's a decent chance that a dedicated terrorist has already tried or is attempting to execute it. war-gaming nounˈwɔːɡeɪmɪŋˈwôrˌɡāmiNG 1The action of playing a war game as a leisure activity or exercise in personal development. 战争游戏 We also have an extensive program of experimentation, simulation, war-gaming and analysis, which looks at the future environment. Mann includes a stunning, disturbing chapter about the war-gaming during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. There has to be lots of war-gaming - hiring consultants to see if they can infiltrate the enemy and find out its weaknesses. Example sentencesExamples Unfortunately, the use of wargaming in the American military is not universal. We believe those experts can be developed and nurtured through the time-tested practice of wargaming - particularly if they learn, along the way, that you can't win 'em all. 1.1 The action of engaging in a campaign or course of action using the strategies of a military exercise. 〈美〉（用军事演习策略）对（活动，行动）进行模拟演练 Example sentencesExamples Germany was a centre of wargaming in its nascent stages with Prussian reliance on wargames in planning attacks right up until the Great War. This article promotes wargaming as an innovative tool for achieving successful war-fighting strategies. Time permitting, the aviation battalion commander provided guidance before going into the course of action development and wargaming. Soviet wargaming could not adjudicate the strategic impacts of air power. Yet, the scope of naval wargaming always seemed beyond its latest system. The interesting mix of military history and wargaming is important to the profession of arms. Then some years later wargaming would be formally adopted by that country's military. The strength of wargaming lies in exploring alternatives and enhancing insights into likely courses of action, not in providing quantitative results. This concept has been used by the military for decades primarily in wargaming. Like in earlier wargames, the rigors of wargaming changed expectations of a war with the Soviets. From this brief survey of wargaming, we can see wargaming has affected history and military operations. Definition of war game in US English: war game nounˈwôr ˌɡāmˈwɔr ˌɡeɪm 1A military exercise carried out to test or improve tactical expertise. 军事演习 Example sentencesExamples In 1984, I participated in a war game featuring a Cessna rigged with a tiny nuke and flown by a suicide pilot. During the war game, the S - 1 should brief casualty estimates and you should brief the medical concept of support for these estimates by phase. Helicopters rumbled overhead and gunfire crackled as a military unit engaged in a war game under the gaze of a crowd dotted with military uniforms. North Korea says the situation is deteriorating and nearing the brink of nuclear conflict, with the US and South Korea exercising war games in the area. Central Command held a major war game Oct.4 and 5 to test Gen. Franks' plan. THE US spent £165 million on the biggest war game in military history earlier this month. Members from all branches of the Army participated in a week-long war game to help dictate the future of the Signal Corps. They called for a halt to the war game to invade the North, including the Stryker Brigade Combat Team's drill in South Korea, and signing of a nonaggression treaty with the North. There are two components to a war game: field exercises and command post exercises. That's because Fidel Castro's government is telling the Cuban people that the war games are intended to deter what could be an imminent U.S. invasion of the island. Several senior officers attended war game training recently aimed at improving logistical concepts and improving capability development. A rare war game will be held next month simulating a terrorist attack on Taipei, officials said yesterday. At that time, the Central Command had what they called an exercise, a war game, called ‘Internal Luck.’ Also joining the war games are ships and personnel from Canada, Holland, Germany, Peru, Norway, Italy, Denmark, France and Australia. Japan's army and US Marines will conduct joint war games early next year simulating the retaking of an isolated island captured by an enemy - the first exercise of its kind by the two militaries, a news report said yesterday. Even now, Gardiner said after the war game, the military sees post-conflict operations as peripheral to its duties. The most recent US command-and-control exercise, conducted last month, was a war game simulating a US invasion of Iran in 2007. The newspaper also said a large-scale joint-force war game will be conducted in the ‘near future’ following training that has lasted almost two months. The war game identified the direct linkages between raw material sources, production capacity and the employment and sustainment of combat systems. These tactics have been a routine ingredient of every major Army war game for the past five years. Synonyms training exercises, exercises, war games, operations 1.1 A simulated military conflict carried out as a game, leisure activity, or exercise in personal development. 战争游戏 Example sentencesExamples It was a war game based on the American Civil War. After spending a couple of months with WarBirds III, I can definitely see the appeal in this multi-player online war game. The main activities of Magic Mon are computer gaming, card games, board games and war games. Despite its faults, it provides the best mix of playability and serious simulation yet seen in a computer war game. Soldiers of Liberty combines the depth of a squad based game with the intensity of an action-packed war game that unfolds in the streets, subways, and buildings of the city. Actually, it took the combination of squad based elements and first person shooting to innovate the war game with last year's award winning Call of Duty. There are a handful of games for children, a seemingly endless series of rehashes of Victorian parlor games, war games, and that's it. This last group of lots consisted of war games and European-style board games. Desai said games could cover a wide range of possibilities from role playing and adventure to simulation, sports, war games and ‘edutainment’ that blends learning and playing. The new group took part in paintball war games, held at a remote bush property two hours drive south of Perth. Using a newly built electronic command post, Franks and his thousand-strong team of US and British staff officers will fight a sophisticated electronic war game which will simulate a campaign against Iraq. I like flight simulators and mission-based war games. Others, particularly fans of war games, see games as a simulation, a way to reproduce reality. Today there is a much more diversified selection of games available, from war games to Eurogames. Ultimately it is the American audience that today's war games are developed for, so the ‘gung-ho’ attitude you object to is sadly nothing new. Have you seen the ads for the latest batch of simulated war games? They are also organising a paintball war game for deaf and hearing members. Battle of Britain is a war game for the personal computer from noted designer Gary Grigsby. Every year our games club has an auction, most of which are war games. This game is played like the traditional war game. verbˈwôr ˌɡāmˈwɔr ˌɡeɪm [with object]war-gameNorth American Engage in (a campaign or course of action) using the strategies of a war game. 〈美〉（用军事演习策略）对（活动，行动）进行模拟演练 there seemed to be no point war-gaming an election 15 months away 提前15个月演练选举活动似乎没什么意义。 Example sentencesExamples His campaign consultants had certainly war-gamed and story-conferenced the issue to death. The enemy we're fighting is different from the one we'd war-gamed against. No team was assigned to diligently unearth the plan's shortfalls or over-sights - or to thoroughly war-game the various courses of action while planners considered and developed them. Military strategists use models to simulate the course of battles and wars under various scenarios; indeed, the Iraq War was war-gamed long before the fighting began. The Army has war-gamed the forward-basing problem. In 1994, James F. Dunnigan and I war-gamed several Indo-Pakistan war scenarios for a commercial project. They then must war-game different scenarios to ensure that the goal is realistic and that it has a 10-percent overage of all stocks to compensate for any deficiencies in planning.
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