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rôle play

rôle play is the dated form of roleplay.

Meaning of roleplay

Verb

roleplay (third-person singular simple present roleplays, present participle roleplaying, simple past and past participle roleplayed)

  1. (intransitive) To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.
    • To spice up their sex life, they like to roleplay.
  2. (transitive) To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
    • He likes to roleplay a vampire.
  3. (intransitive, transitive) 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.

See all 5 meanings of roleplay

Forms of rôle play

Verb
third-person singular presentrôle plays
present participlerôle playing
past participlerôle played
pastrôle played
Noun
pluralrôle plays

Questions about rôle play

What is rôle play the dated form of?
Rôle play is the dated form of roleplay.

Words near rôle play in the dictionary

  1. Róng
  2. rôle
  3. rôle conflict
  4. rôle model
  5. rôle models
  6. rôle play
  7. rôle played
  8. rôle playing
  9. rôle playing game
  10. rôle playing games
  11. rôle plays

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Adapted from Wiktionary: rôle play (page history and authors); roleplay (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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