role-playing

See also: roleplaying and rôleplaying

English

Alternative forms

• roleplaying

Noun

role-playing (usually uncountable, plural role-playings)

1. Action in which a person takes on a role (as that of an actor) and acts out being that character.

Derived terms

• role-playing game
• roll-playing

Related terms

• LARP

Translations

action in which a person takes on a role

• French: jeu de rôle (fr) m
• Italian: gioco delle parti m
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Verb

role-playing

1. present participle of role-play

Derived terms

• LARPing