ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting;
gambling; the turf.
gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; gambling joint;
totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box.
[person who takes chances] gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer; dicer † .
V. chance &c (hap) 156; stand a chance &c (be possible) 470.
toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of
accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance,
take a shot at it (attempt) 675; run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the
chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die.
speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke,
shuffle the cards.
risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble,
game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
Adj. fortuitous &c 156; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned,
purposed; unpremeditated &c 612; unforeseen, uncontemplated, never thought of.
random, indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected; aimless, driftless † , designless † ,
purposeless, causeless; without purpose.
possible &c 470.
unforeseeable, unpredictable, chancy, risky, speculative, dicey.
Adv. randomly, by chance, fortuitously; unpredictably, unforeseeably; casually &c 156;
unintentionally &c adj.; unwittingly.
en passant [Fr.], by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at a venture, at
haphazard.
Phr. acierta errando [Lat.]; dextro tempore [Lat.]; fearful concatenation of circumstances
[D.
Webster]; fortuitous combination of circumstances [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils
d'avarice et le pere du desespoir [Fr.]; the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances
[Scott]; the fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms [Bentley]; God does not play dice
with the universe [A.
Einstein].
622. [Purpose in action.] Pursuit -- N. pursuit; pursuing &c v.; prosecution; pursuance;
enterprise &c (undertaking) 676; business &c 625; adventure &c (essay) 675; quest &c
(search) 461; scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt.
chase, hunt, battue † , race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation, venery; fox
chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking; shikar (Geog loc:India).
pursuer; hunter, huntsman; shikari (Geog loc:India), sportsman, Nimrod; hound &c
366.
V. pursue, prosecute, follow; run after, make after, be after, hunt after, prowl after;
shadow; carry on &c (do) 680; engage in &c (undertake) 676; set about &c (begin) 66;
endeavor &c 675; court &c (request) 765; seek &c (search) 461; aim at &c (intention)
620; follow the trail &c (trace) 461; fish for &c (experiment) 463; press on &c (haste)
684; run a race &c (velocity) 274.
chase, give chase, course, dog, hunt, hound; tread on the heels, follow on the heels of,
&c (sequence) 281.