What are two meanings of the word game in the book "The Most Dangerous Game," by Richard Connell?

The title "The Most Dangerous Game" can be interpreted to
mean that human beings are the most dangerous animals for any man to hunt. It can also
be interpreted to mean that Rainsford himself is the most dangerous game animal, or
prey, that Zaroff has ever run into. The title can also be interpreted to mean that the
game Zaroff plays with human beings is the most dangerous experience they themselves
will ever have in their lives. Or it could be interpreted to mean that Rainsford himself
has always thought of hunting as a game and now finds himself playing the most dangerous
game of this type that he has ever played. 

In Ingmar
Bergman's marvelous motion picture The Seventh Seal, the knight
finds himself playing a long game of chess with Death. The knight can stay alive as long
as he can at least keep from being check-mated. He knows that he is sure to lose the
game in the long run because every mortal loses, but his love of life and fear of death
keep him using his wits to keep the chess game going for as long as possible. We can
easily identify with Rainsford in "The Most Dangerous Game" because we all cling to life
and are afraid of death. Here is what one of Shakespeare's characters has to say about
death in Measure for Measure:

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CLAUDIO.
Ay, but to die, and go we
know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot;
This
sensible warm motion to become
A kneaded clod; and the delighted
spirit
To bathe in fiery floods or to reside
In thrilling regions of
thick-ribbed ice;
To be imprison'd in the viewless winds,
And blown
with restless violence round about
The pendent world; or to be worse than
worst
Of those that lawless and incertain thought
Imagine
howling!--'tis too horrible!
The weariest and most loathed worldly
life
That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment
Can lay on nature is a
paradise
To what we fear of death.       Act 3, Scene
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