玩遊戲的人
這一支就是字面本身：有遊戲，他在玩。差別只在玩的是什麼。
noun · B2
A person who plays games of any kind as a hobby — board games, card games, dice games, or role-playing games, not only games on a screen.
玩遊戲的人
核心畫面
A gamer is a person seen through one activity: playing. Someone hands them a set of rules and a way to win, and they lean in. The word has stayed on that one picture for centuries while the board under it kept changing — dice, cards, a pitch, a screen, and finally the rules of ordinary life treated as if they were a game to be won.
gamer 可以想成「用一件事來認識的人」：他在玩。有人擺出一套規則和一個輸贏，他就投入進去。幾百年來這個畫面沒變過…更多收起
gamer 可以想成「用一件事來認識的人」：他在玩。有人擺出一套規則和一個輸贏，他就投入進去。幾百年來這個畫面沒變過，變的是底下那張桌子——骰子、紙牌、球場、螢幕，最後連日常生活裡的規章制度，都被某些人當成一場可以贏的遊戲來玩。From the word’s history
From Middle English gamer, attested as a common noun before 1450; game (noun) + -er, the suffix that names the person who does something. The word has always meant simply 'one who plays games'.
這個字是 game（遊戲）加上 -er（做這件事的人）組成的，中古英文裡就有 gamer，最晚在一四五〇年以前已被當成普通名詞使用，當時指的是玩各種遊戲、賭局的人。也就是說，「玩遊戲的人」這個字面意思，從一開始就是它的全部；後來的各種用法，都是底下那張桌子換了而已。
Wiktionary entry for 'gamer' (etymology supplied in the evidence packet: Middle English gamer, game + -er, attested before 1450)
Three branches
比賽場上很能拚的人
運動比賽在英文裡本來就叫 game，所以「把 game 打好的人」自然也叫 gamer；只是重點從「玩」移到了「上場時的表現」。
noun · B2
In American English, a sports player who performs well when the game is actually being played and helps the team win, keeping going even when tired or having a bad day.
關鍵時刻靠得住的球員
把制度當遊戲玩的人
這一支是從動詞 game（把制度當遊戲破解）來的：遊戲的那套「找規則、找贏法」被搬到了真實生活的規章上。
noun · C1
Someone who works out how to use the rules of a system for their own advantage — staying inside the rules, but using them in a way they were never meant for.
鑽規則漏洞的人
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
gamernoun詞源 1/ˈɡeɪ̯mə/
- 1
A person who plays any kind of game.
- […] any dice-player, carder, tennis player, or other unlawful gamer.
- These dice are the gamers' weapons […]
- 2
A person who plays any kind of game.
- That the Parliament congratulates the online gamer, Harry Brewis, who is known by the handle HBomberGuy, […]
- A country that's enriched the world with sushi, karaoke and manga, Japan has many devotees, especially among gamers and geeks.
- 3
A person who games the system.
- Near-synonym: gamesman
- […] the real "takers" in this country are commercial gamers of the system who are only in it to swipe a fast buck from the common trust.
- 4
obsoleteA gambler.
- The gamer is farther from restoration even than the drunkard, because what he does he does in the light of sobriety and reason.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。