board game

noun

1. a game, as checkers or chess, requiring the moving of pieces from one section of a board to another.
2. any game played on a board.

Word History and Origins

Origin of board game¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

Their projects could be written reports or, if their talents lay elsewhere, movies, plays, songs or board games — as long as they showed they had learned the lesson at hand.

From Los Angeles Times

They treated it all like some terrible board game when they should have been sounding the alarms and giving the most menacing threat in American history the editorial weight it deserved.

From Salon

Last time we spoke, Shears recalled with fondness that one critic had panned their debut by calling it "a confusing board game of an album".

From BBC

“We played board games on our first date - she absolutely hammered me.”

From BBC

In the carcass of one burnt-out home, a board game rests on top of a coffee table, next to a melted television remote control.

From BBC