Word.ws English Dictionary

ageplay

/eɪd͡ʒ pleɪ/

ageplay noun: a form of roleplay in which the player deliberately acts an age different from their own (and usually younger).

Noun

ageplay (uncountable)

  1. A form of roleplay in which the player deliberately acts an age different from their own (and usually younger).
    • Although Linden Lab announced that sexual ageplay was always banned in Second Life […]2008, Tawfik Jelassi, Albrecht Enders, Strategies for e-business: creating value through electronic and mobile commerce
    • Then again, that kind of ageplay is basically a normalized kink […]2008, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture

Verb

ageplay (third-person singular simple present ageplays, present participle ageplaying, simple past and past participle ageplayed)

  1. To engage in ageplay; to role-play as a different age than one’s actual chronological age.
    • American Motherhood, volume 22, Crist, Scott, & Parshall, 1905, →ISBN, page 101: “I have often entered a town on a late train, and have seen groups of children from eight to sixteen years of ageplaying around the stations, apparently unnoticed, though it was after midnight.”

Forms of ageplay

Noun
alternative formage play
Verb
third-person singular presentageplays
present participleageplaying
past participleageplayed
pastageplayed

Origin of ageplay

Compound of age + play.

Questions about ageplay

What does ageplay mean?
Ageplay means a form of roleplay in which the player deliberately acts an age different from their own (and usually younger).
What part of speech is ageplay?
Ageplay can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce ageplay?
Ageplay is pronounced /eɪd͡ʒ pleɪ/.

Words near ageplay in the dictionary

  1. ageostrophic
  2. ageostrophy
  3. ageotropic
  4. ageotype
  5. ageotypes
  6. ageplay
  7. ageplayed
  8. ageplayer
  9. ageplayers
  10. ageplaying
  11. ageplays

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ageplay (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “ageplay.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ageplay. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.