game changer

See also: gamechanger and game-changer

English

Alternative forms

• gamechanger
• game-changer

Noun

game changer (plural game changers)

1. A visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation.
2. (literally or figuratively) An innovative idea, product, event or procedure which changes the rules of a process viewed as a game.

   Improved drug testing has been a game changer for many sports.

   • 2024 November 17, Phil McNulty, “England 5-0 Republic of Ireland”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     Kane’s magnificent pass from deep to Bellingham that led to the penalty was the game changer, resulting in a penalty which the captain scored, the Republic also being reduced to 10 men with Scales’ red card.

Related terms

• game-changing
• change the game

Translations

a visionary, innovative person who changes the way people think of a situation

• Finnish: mullistaja

(literally or figuratively) an innovative idea, product or procedure which changes the rules of a process viewed as a game

• Finnish: mullistus (fi)
• Russian: перело́мный моме́нт m (perelómnyj momént), геймче́йнджер m (gejmčéjndžer) (neologism)
• Spanish: punto inflexional m, cambiador lúdico m, revolucionador m

See also

• landmark
• milestone
• trailblazer
• watershed

Further reading

• “game changer”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.