game plan vs scheme

game plan and scheme both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
game plan	Yes	No	No	No
scheme	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, scheme is a hypernym of game plan; that is, scheme is a word with a broader meaning than game plan:

Other hypernyms of game plan include strategy.

As nouns, scheme is a hypernym of game plan; that is, scheme is a word with a broader meaning than game plan:

game plan: (figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs
scheme: an elaborate and systematic plan of action

Other hypernyms of game plan include strategy.

game plan (noun)	scheme (noun)
(sports) a plan for achieving an objective in some sport	an elaborate and systematic plan of action
(figurative) a carefully thought out strategy for achieving an objective in war or politics or business or personal affairs	an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
	a schematic or preliminary plan
	a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
	a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole

game plan (verb)	scheme (verb)
	form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
	devise a system or form a scheme for