mazenoun [ C ]
uk/meɪz/us/meɪz/maze noun [ C ] (PLACE)
a complicated system of paths or passages that people try to find their way through for entertainment
an area in which you can get easily lost because there are so many similar streets or passages:
The old part of the town was a maze of narrow passages.
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Miscellaneous games & activities
- air hockey
- bingo
- bungee jumping
- cage diving
- charade
- crossword
- cryptic crossword
- free running
- freestyle football
- Frisbee
- handball
- hangman
- noughts and crosses
- pinball machine
- quoits
- resistance training
- softball
- tiddlywinks
- treasure hunt
- tug of war
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Roads: pedestrian routes
maze noun [ C ] (RULES/IDEAS)
a complicated set of rules, ideas, or subjects that you find difficult to deal with or understand:
It's almost impossible to get through the maze of bureaucracy.
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Difficult to understand
- (as) clear as mud idiom
- abstruse
- ambiguity
- ambiguous
- arcane
- blurred
- diffuse
- equivocal
- esoteric
- fathomless
- garble
- get it into your thick head idiom
- opaque
- oracular
- over your head idiom
- paradox
- puzzler
- puzzling
- veiled
- verbose
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Difficult things and people