icebreaker game
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- noun
- /ˈaɪsˌbreɪkər ɡeɪm/
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- The workshop began with an icebreaker game to make everyone feel comfortable.
Examples
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We played an icebreaker game at the start of the meeting.
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Before the main event, we played a quick icebreaker game to help everyone relax.
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Teachers often use an icebreaker game on the first day of class.
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Can you suggest an icebreaker game for our team?
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At the start of the meeting, we played an icebreaker game to help everyone feel more comfortable.
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The teacher organized an icebreaker game for the new students to encourage them to introduce themselves.
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During orientation, they included an icebreaker game to facilitate conversation among the attendees.
Synonyms
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2.1
Polite short talk about simple topics like the weather
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Something people do to make others feel relaxed and start talking
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An activity people do with guests to make a social event more fun
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A game people play indoors for fun at parties
An action or remark that starts a conversation
How Helpful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is directly compositional: it denotes a 'game' that serves as an 'icebreaker' (an activity or remark to ease awkwardness). This noun+noun combination follows a regular semantic pattern and parallels cross-linguistic ways of labeling activities to initiate conversation, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase icebreaker game comes from the image of a ship called an icebreaker that breaks thick ice to make a path through frozen water. So a short game 'breaks the ice' between people by helping them 'start talking' and get to know each other.