gamify

English

Etymology

From game +‎ -ify.

Verb

gamify (third-person singular simple present gamifies, present participle gamifying, simple past and past participle gamified)

1. (transitive) To convert into the form of a game.
   • 2025 May 10, Lulu Garcia-Navarro, “‘The Interview’: Can Whitney Wolfe Herd Make Us Love Dating Apps Again?”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2025:

     Famously, Tinder gamified the search for love, introducing that addictive swipe feature to its target audience: millennials.

Derived terms

• gamifiable

Related terms

• gamification

Descendants

• → German: gamifizieren

Translations

to convert into the form of a game

• Finnish: pelillistää (fi)
• French: ludifier (fr)
• German: gamifizieren
• Portuguese: ludificar, gamificar (pt)
• Spanish: ludificar (es), gamificar
• Swedish: spelifiera (sv)

Anagrams

• Gyamfi