The Great Game is a British term for what the British see as a strategic rivalry and conflict between the British Empire and the Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia.

The classic Great Game period is generally regarded as running approximately from the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813 to the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907.

Following the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 a second, less intensive phase follows.The term "The Great Game" is usually attributed to Arthur Conolly, an intelligence officer of the British East India Company's Sixth Bengal Light Cavalry.

It is introduced into mainstream consciousness by British novelist Rudyard Kipling in his novel Kim (1901).