game

game
  No distinction was made between game, sport, and recreation, all of which might be mea pā'ani. See Mitchell. Eng.-Haw. entries: archery, bowling, box, cartwheel, checkers, cock-fighting, dive, fence, gamble, guess, hide-and-seek, hopscotch, jacks, juggle, kite, marbles, mumble-the-peg, pole vault, quoits, race, ring and ball game, ringtoss, shot-put, somersault, stilt, string figure, swing, tag, top, tug-of-war, wrestling.
   ♦ For game chants, see holohi'a, punikihi.
   ♦ Complete defeat in a game, make pilau.
   ♦ Place for indoor games, lōkū.
   ♦ Games of strength: hā'awe, honuhonu, hukihuki, kā mākoi kanaka, kano, kula'i wāwae, kulakula'i, māmaka, pā uma, pā'ume'ume, uma.
   ♦ Games with stones, sticks, clubs, spears: āneo, holoholo, ho'olei pōpō, ka'ōka'a, kaupua, ke'a lā'au, ke'a pua, kiniholo, kinipeki, kūhela, kulakula, lā'au 'pili, lele puni, no'a, 'ō'ō ihe, pahe'e, pahe'e 'ulu, pāhi'uhi'u, pala'ie, pōhā kīhelei, pūhenehene (Cf. kihi moe, kihi puka), pū'ili, pu'upu'uone.
   ♦ Card games: hai-lō-keaha, kāmau, kekake, konoki, male, nu'uanu, piula.
   ♦ Sexual games: kilu, 'ume, pili, loku.
   ♦ Miscellaneous games: aho loa, honohono, ho'olelekē, kōhikōhi-kū-palalā, kōī, kū-hele-mai (kū-ā-hele-mai), le'ole'o, loulou, mimi ho'okahekahe wai, moa, moa nahele, na'ina'i, nā'ū, paha'o, pahipahi, pili lima, pinao, pio, polepole, pūkaula, punikihi, punipeki.

English-Hawaiian dictionary. 2015.

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