summer gamen.

a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) l. 4681 Daunces, karols, somour games, Of many swych come many shames.

c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Wife of Bath's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 626 His wyf was at a someres game.

?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 246 A wilde pleiere of someres gamenes.

1469 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 103 (note) Accessit cum Thoma Barker..et Margareta More, in regem et reginam ipsius villæ in ludo suo æstivali, Anglice Somer-game, forte electis.

a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xvi. §12. 57 Thai haf vmgifen me in the crosse hyngand, as foles that gedirs til a somere gamen.

1583 G. Babington Very Fruitfull Expos. Commaundem. iv. 190 Whether carding,..stage plaies and summer games..be exercises commanded of God for the sabaoth day or no.

1640 R. Brathwait Two Lancs. Lovers xxviii. 223 H'as wonne the best prizes..at our Summer-Games two yeares together.

1920 Stud. Philol. 17 45 It is difficult to separate the summer games from those of the late spring. May Day and Whitsun, the two great folk festivals of the spring–summer period from April to June, were often much alike in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.

1955 Jrnl. Eng. Folk Dance & Song Soc. 7 232 His [sc. that of the Abbot of Bon-Accord in Aberdeen] job was to arrange processions on feast days, plays and farces, and summer games, including the procession to the woods early on May morning.

2009 Theatre Jrnl. 61 285 The Robin Hood of the summer games was not a subversive outlaw, but was chosen from the ranks of respectable parish leaders.

1600 J. Weever Faunus & Melliflora sig. B3 Here the Nymphes playd such summer games as Base, For it was summer alwaies in this place.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 35/1 Ho, spy! is chiefly a summer game.

1858 Youth's Compan. 8 Apr. 54 The time is fast drawing nigh when your summer games will engage your play-hours.

1890 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 342 In summer we were happy with our school, the frequent May walks, picnics, swimming in the ‘font’, and all sorts of summer games and amusements.

1936 Brandon (Manitoba) Daily Sun 28 May 2/5 Baseball is staging its most ambitious bid to challenge the popularity of ancient and langorous cricket as the English national summer game.

1957 Times 17 Oct. 15/5 In the United States lacrosse is a summer game.

2014 C. Server Everything Big Bk. Party Games iv. 72 Begin this cute summer game by setting up the two-liter bottles like you would pins at a bowling alley.

1821 Brit. Rev. Sept. 76 The relics of some Esquimeaux huts, proved that the summer game in this island was sometimes temptation sufficient to attract hunters from among the neighbouring Indians.

1861 H. W. Wheelwright Bush Wanderings of Naturalist vii. 100 The snipe..remained in our district longer than any other summer game.

1897 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 36 457 The spring..would give us mild weather and summer game to assist us on our retreat.

1938 3rd Biennial Rep. Washington State Game Comm. 54 A winter survey of the Rattlesnake Reserve was conducted as a continuation of the summer game management studies.

1977 Midcontinental Jrnl. Archaeol. 2 232 While it is expected that hunting was undertaken, the type of site produced by this behavior would be less likely to be preserved, especially considering the dispersed nature of summer game herds such as elk.

2011 M. Pinedo-Vasquez & R. R. Sears in M. Pinedo-Vasquez et al. Amazon Várzea 196 Classify..game that is hunted during the dry season as summer game.

1859 G. W. Matsell Vocabulum 117 Summer game, playing merely for amusement. Summer game, playing a game for the benefit of another person with his money.

1890 A. Barrère & C. G. Leland Dict. Slang (1897) Summer game (American gamblers), playing merely for amusement or benefit of another person, but with his money.

1928 Titusville (Pa.) Herald 20 June 10/3 If the Americans are going to sweep any event in the summer games at Amsterdam they should find the stick work [sc. the pole vault] the easiest.

1953 East & West 3 253/3 The winter Olympic games are held every four years and the summer games also in the same years.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 1 June d1 The organizing committee..for the 1980 Summer Games recently purchased $900,000 of sophisticated equipment..to supplement that already installed in their drug-testing laboratories in Moscow.

2002 U.S. News & World Rep. 21 Jan. 52/1 Nike..had watched in horror as Speedo's full-length swimming skin was knocked off like a Gucci bag before it could give the U.S. team an extra edge at the 2000 summer games in Sydney.

2011 A. Zimbalist Circling Bases 125 Total revenue from the Games is in the neighborhood of $4 to $5 billion for the Summer Games and roughly half that for the Winter Games.

1464 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 103 (note) Lumini vocato Somer-game light.

1519 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 103 To the Somer-game lyght in my parishe chirche ij s.

1892 W. C. Hazlitt Livery Companies 656 We hear of the summer-game light, the young men's light, the bachelors' light, the married men's light, [etc.].

1996 R. Hutton Stations of Sun xxiv. 247 Some Yorkshire communities used part of them [sc. the proceeds] to maintain a special ‘summer game light’.