fun and games
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Meaning · English
Enjoyable activities or entertainment
Literally: amusing activities and playful contests
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
A cheerful citizen ’s festival is planned with fun and games, with food and drink, for young and old, a multimedia open - air spectacle.
A wild midnight gallop lands her on the very doorstep of her ancestral home, and the fun and games commence.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed on Wikipedia “Irreversible binomial” (CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-29). Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-30; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “fun and games” mean?
Enjoyable activities or entertainment Literally: amusing activities and playful contests
Is “fun and games” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.