Card-playing in a sentence as an adjective

Every now and then a card-playing friend of mine would complain about their luck, and I always answered the same way:"People don't gamble on Chess.

We are accomplishing everything that card-playing does but we are “faster, more accurate, and cheaper” if we are measuring, say, labor cost per part and the technician time averaged over the parts they worked on.

Card-playing definitions

adjective

preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies"

See also: dissipated betting sporting