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rôle-playing

rôle-playing is the dated form of roleplaying.

rôle-playing is the present participle and gerund of rôle-play.

Meaning of roleplaying

Noun

roleplaying (usually uncountable, plural roleplayings)

  1. (usually) Action in which a person takes on a role (as that of an actor) and acts out being that character.
    • But perhaps the most interesting aspect of roleplaying’s development has been the emergence of the “story-game” movement: a passionate community of independent designers using games to explore new themes and approaches to storytelling.2017 February 8, Owen Duffy, “Monsterhearts: 'A lot of queer youth are made to feel monstrous by people around them'”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN...

Phrases with rôle-playing

Questions about rôle-playing

What is rôle-playing the dated form of?
Rôle-playing is the dated form of roleplaying.

Words near rôle-playing in the dictionary

  1. rôle plays
  2. rôle-play
  3. rôle-played
  4. rôle-player
  5. rôle-players
  6. rôle-playing
  7. rôle-playing game
  8. rôle-playing games
  9. rôle-plays
  10. rôleplay
  11. rôleplayed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rôle-playing (page history and authors); roleplaying (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.

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