fun and games

noun

plural in form but singular or plural in construction
: light amusement

Examples of fun and games in a Sentence

soon found out that owning and maintaining a yacht wasn't all fun and games it's not all fun and games at the summer music camp, where students are expected to take their studies seriously
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The Windows 11 fun and games continues, with another new twist in the battle to push hundreds of millions of stubborn Windows 10 holdouts to update their software and maybe their hardware as well. Zak Doffman, Forbes, 2 Dec. 2024 Their fun and games soon end and the trip quickly goes sideways back in their vacation home. Esther Kang, People.com, 18 Nov. 2024 Scientists, as well as local high school and college students, used fun and games, plus a few robots, homemade lava lamps, and crowd-pleasing demos, to inspire interest among young people in the STEM disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Lori Weisberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024 While the part about what AI David would do to Kristen under the table in a public library is all fun and games (well, fun for us, unsettling for Kristen), things turn scary quickly. Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 18 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for fun and games 

Word History

First Known Use

1920, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of fun and games was in 1920

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“Fun and games.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fun%20and%20games. Accessed 13 Dec. 2024.

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