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role-playing

role-playing is the alternative form of roleplaying.

role-playing is the present participle and gerund of role-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...

Forms of role-playing

pluralrole-playings

Phrases with role-playing

Questions about role-playing

What is role-playing the alternative form of?
Role-playing is the alternative form of roleplaying.

Words near role-playing in the dictionary

  1. role-oriented languages
  2. role-play
  3. role-played
  4. role-player
  5. role-players
  6. role-playing
  7. role-playing game
  8. role-playing games
  9. role-playing video game
  10. role-playing video games
  11. role-playings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: role-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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