The name says everything you need to know about them, they are games. Anybody that tries to tell you the athletes aren't there to play because they are the most skilled athletes in the world at their event doesn't know what they are talking about. No matter how competitive a game can get, no matter what is on the line, and no matter what record is broken, it is always going to be just a game, and nothing more. Good Will Hunting explained it, some people can just play at an instrument, Will could just play at equations, and athletes can just play at their sport. Of course it will require time, effort, training, and practice to play well, the same kind of dedication peole put toward their jobs, but it really is still just playing at the end of the day. Most people in the world don't clock in for a work day at a gym because it's not a work place, it's somewhere people go to practice or train at their talent, not their work.
Talent and work are not the same thing, which is why most people go to work, then they play on their time off if they do at all (sports, other things if they have a talent at anything). The Olympic Games are not leisure in the sense that most people have of leisure, they are not the same thing as vacation, they require more time, energy, effort, and dedication than vacation or leisure, but they are still games, and as long as they are games, the athletes in them are playing. Any time somebody starts calling anything called games or sports something else, or says that athletes or players are not playing, they are doing something else, is missing the point and calling things something other than what they are.
by The Original Agahnim July 26, 2021
Get the Olympic gamesmug. Thanos, a purple skinned buff and stripes chin dude from the Marvel Cinematic Universe doing gaming in his house.
What games does he play? Who knows
What games does he play? Who knows
by DefinitionMaster321 February 18, 2021
Get the Thanos gamingmug. The rivalry game between the Fremont High School Firebirds (Sunnyvale) and the Homestead High School Mustangs (Cupertino) played every year, in which the winner claims the bell for that year. Fremont is typically the winner of this specific matchup.
by firebirdfelipelover February 26, 2024
Get the bell gamemug. Person 1: “Bro, Shelly just posted on TikTok!”
Person 2: “Cool, is it a slideshow?”
Person!1: “No, it’s a video where you have to pause.”
Person 2: “Nah bro, my pause game is so bad!.”
Person 2: “Cool, is it a slideshow?”
Person!1: “No, it’s a video where you have to pause.”
Person 2: “Nah bro, my pause game is so bad!.”
by anonymous October 12, 2023
Get the Pause gamemug. by anonymous September 17, 2023
Get the grug gamesmug. by TheMaskGuy November 21, 2020
Get the Gamemug. by Eugene_McCarthy_Fan September 7, 2025
Get the Great Gamemug.