Board game with plastic cars and people (4)
I believe the answer is:
life
(Other definitions for life that I've seen before include "Baffin oiler (anag) - 7 film" , "Actuarial estimate of our remaining years" , "'While there's .... there's hope'" , ""But an empty dream" (Longfellow) - "As tedious as a twice-told tale" (Shakespeare)" , "and 12 Down: Biology, medicine, etc" .)