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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...

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

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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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