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
• Spanish: interpretación de roles f, técnica de dramatización f, simulación (es) f, juego de roles m

Verb

role-playing

1. present participle and gerund of role-play

Derived terms

• LARPing