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Galina Shamray
Galina Shamray (Галина Шамрай, 1931–2022), Soviet gymnast from Tashkent; 1952 Olympic team gold and portable apparatus silver; first Soviet woman world all-around champion, Rome 1954; later coach and judge.
Galina Stepanskaya
Galina Stepanskaya (Галина Андреевна Степанская), Soviet speed skater born 1949 in Leningrad; 1976 Innsbruck Olympic 1,500 m champion in 2:16.58 and 1976 world record holder at 3,000 m and mini combination. Not the rower Stepanova or swimmer Prozumenshchikova-Stepanova.
Galina Urbanovich
Galina Urbanovich (Галина Наполеоновна Урбанович), Soviet gymnast (1917–2011), 1952 Olympic team gold and portable apparatus silver, seven-time Soviet all-around champion.
Galina Vinogradova
Galina Vinogradova, later Galina Popova (1932-2017), Soviet sprinter-long jumper; set women's long jump world records of 6.28 m and 6.31 m in 1955 and ran on a 4x100 m relay world record team.
Galina Yermolenko
Galina Yermolenko (later Grinwald), born 25 January 1932, Soviet Leningrad hurdler and pentathlete; set the women's 80 m hurdles world record of 10.8 s at Leningrad on 5 July 1955, broken by Zenta Gastl in 1956.
Galina Zakharova
Galina Petrovna Zakharova (Галина Петровна Захарова, born 1947, Kyiv) is a Ukrainian handball player who won gold with the Soviet Union in women's handball at the 1976 Montreal Olympics; distinct from the 1956-born Soviet runner of the same name.
Galina Zhiltsova
Galina Zhiltsova (Галина Жильцова), Soviet middle-distance runner and 3x800m relay world record holder; set 6:54.0 Moskva 1949 and 6:53.8 Tbilisi 1949 with Dmitruk and Vasilyeva; Air Forces champion; event discontinued in 1969.
Galina Zybina
Galina Zybina, full name Galina Ivanovna Zybina-Fyodorova, was a Soviet shot putter who won the 1952 Olympic title and set eight shot put world records between 1952 and 1956.
Galliano Rossini
Galliano Rossini (1927-1987), Italian trap shooter, Olympic gold at Melbourne 1956 with record 195 and silver at Rome 1960; five-time Olympian and nine-time World Championship medallist.
Gallinazo
Gallinazo is a four-player block-style domino game played in San Lorenzo, Puerto Rico and Guadalajara, Mexico, with a double six set; points are penalties, blocked games can quadruple a player's score, and seven deals decide the loser, who buys beer.
Gallipoli (video game)
Gallipoli is BlackMill Games' 2026 fourth WW1 Game Series first-person shooter, set on the Ottoman Fronts of World War I, with 50-player objective battles, 10 classes, one Expeditions mode, and five maps at launch.
Gallop Racer
Gallop Racer (ギャロップレーサー) is Tecmo's horse-racing simulation series, beginning with a 1996 arcade game, debuting in the US in 1999 on PlayStation, and continuing through Gallop Racer 2006 and the Champion Jockey crossover.
Gals Panic
Gals Panic (ギャルズ・パニック) is Kaneko's 1990 adult arcade game, a Qix-style territory-claiming puzzle that reveals progressively undressing images of women, with a blue/yellow meter, 80 percent capture goal, and a long sequel series through Re:Gals Panic 2 (2025).
Gama Singh
Gama Singh (Gadowar Singh Sahota, ਗਦੋਵਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਸਹੋਤਾ), also Great Gama, born 1954, is an Indian-Canadian retired professional wrestler, Karachi Vice heel leader in Stampede Wrestling, six-time British Commonwealth Mid-Heavyweight champion, and Impact Wrestling Desi Hit Squad manager.
Gamba Osaka
Gamba Osaka (ガンバ大阪), J1 League football club from Suita, Osaka; founded 1980 as Matsushita Electric's works team; J1 champions 2005 and 2014 treble; AFC Champions League 2008 and first club to also win AFC Champions League Two (2025/26).
Gambia national football team
The Gambia national football team, the Scorpions, is Gambia's men's team under the Gambia Football Federation. First AFCON qualification in 2021, quarterfinal run, 2023 group stage, and 27 goals in 2026 World Cup qualifying.
Gambit
Gambit (chess): an opening sacrifice, usually of a pawn, for development and initiative; from Italian gambetto. Includes King's, Evans, Benko, and Queen's Gambits; engines refute most, yet they score well practically.
Gambling
Gambling is staking money or something of value on an unpredictable outcome, hoping to win more; betting, casino games, and lotteries are all forms of it.
Game
A digital game is an interactive electronic work based on goal-oriented rules. It is played on various platforms, representing a global industry exceeding $200 billion in 2025.
Game (hunting)
Game (hunting): wild animals, chiefly birds and mammals such as deer, rabbits, and pheasants, hunted for food, sport, or trade under regulated seasons, licences, and quotas; also called wild game or quarry species.
Game & Watch
Game & Watch (ゲーム&ウオッチ) is a line of handheld electronic games made by Nintendo from 1980 to 1991. It combined game and clock functions in pocket-sized bodies.
Game 7 of the 2025 World Series
Game 7 of the 2025 World Series: Dodgers beat Blue Jays 5-4 in 11 innings, Nov 1, 2025, Rogers Centre, on Will Smith's 11th-inning homer; first repeat champion in 25 years, Yamamoto MVP.
Game Boy
The Game Boy (DMG-01) is a handheld video game console designed by Gunpei Yokoi. Launched in Japan on April 21, 1989, it sold 118.69 million units.
Game Boy Advance SP
Game Boy Advance SP (ゲームボーイアドバンスＳＰ), Nintendo's 2003 clamshell redesign of the Game Boy Advance (AGS-001, later backlit AGS-101), with front-lit 240x160 screen, rechargeable lithium-ion battery, and Game Boy/Color compatibility.
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Color (ゲームボーイカラー) is Nintendo's 1998 8-bit handheld with a color TFT screen, 8 MHz CPU, and backward compatibility with original Game Boy cartridges; discontinued in 2003 after the Game Boy Advance.
Game Boy Micro
The Game Boy Micro is a handheld game console Nintendo released in 2005 as the third and smallest Game Boy Advance redesign, playing GBA cartridges on a 2-inch backlit screen.
Game Changer Wrestling
Game Changer Wrestling (GCW), formerly Jersey Championship Wrestling, is a hardcore and deathmatch independent wrestling promotion in Howell, New Jersey, founded in 1999 by Ricky Otazu, rebranded in 2015 under Brett Lauderdale, known for Spring Break and The Wrld on GCW.
Game controller
Game controller, also called gamepad, is a handheld input device for video games with d-pads, analog sticks, buttons, triggers, and haptics; spans paddles (1972) to DualSense, Hall effect/TMR sticks, and a USD 8.87 billion 2025 market.
Game creation system
Game creation system: software for building video games without full programming, also called game construction sets. Covers 1980s kits, RPG Maker, Construct 3, GDevelop, event systems, education use, and distinction from game engines.
Game design
Game design is the craft and theory of creating games: deciding the mechanics and rulesets that determine how a game is played, in both digital and tabletop work.