roleplay
verb/ˈrəʊl.pleɪ/UK/ˈroʊl.pleɪ/US
Etymology
From role (“expected behavior”) + play (“perform, act”).
Definitions
To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.
- To spice up their sex life, they like to roleplay.
To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
- He likes to roleplay a vampire.
- The particular person roleplaying Beatty in that battle suggested summarily executing Seymour and dumping him overboard.
To act out a social role, especially one that one does not truly belong to.
- He talks like he's some scrappy bootstrap entrepreneur but he's just some old money rich kid roleplaying.
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The act or practice of roleplaying
The act or practice of roleplaying; an instance of roleplaying.
- Lesbian, 34, seeks lesbians who enjoy occasional anal sex and role plays. Light s/m ok too.
- Roy: Let's do some roleplay, OK? Do you think that would be a good idea? Moss: It helped me learn how to buy sandwiches.
The practice of roleplaying.
The neighborhood
- synonymRP
- neighborRPG
- neighborLARP
- neighborroleplayer
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for roleplay. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA