Fromrole(“expected behavior”) +play(“perform, act”).
roleplay (third-person singular simple presentroleplays,present participleroleplaying,simple past and past participleroleplayed)
- (intransitive) Toact out ascenario orfantasy withanotherperson orotherpeople.
To spice up their sex life, they like toroleplay.
- (transitive) To act as a character as part of afantasy, especially with a group.
He likes toroleplay a vampire.
2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 30:18 from the start, inLast Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918[1], archived fromthe original on4 August 2022:The particular personroleplaying Beatty in that battle suggested summarilyexecuting Seymour and dumping him overboard.
- (transitive, intransitive) 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 kidroleplaying.
1982 December 11, Catherine Joseph, “Breaking Barriers”, inGay Community News, volume10, number21, page10:Realizing that she was an 'other' not only as a black woman but also as a black lesbian, she struggles to fiind someplace where she and other black lesbians like herself could live out their existence withoutrole-playing or conforming to the ideals that were prevalent in the bars at that time.
- (act out a social role):pass
To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.
roleplay (countable anduncountable,pluralroleplays)
- Theact orpractice ofroleplaying; aninstance ofroleplaying.
1985 August 17, “Personal advertisement”, inGay Community News, volume13, number 6, page13:Lesbian, 34, seeks lesbians who enjoy occasional anal sex androle plays. Light s/m ok too.
- 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan,The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:
- Roy: Let's do someroleplay, OK? Do you think that would be a good idea?
Moss: It helped me learn how to buy sandwiches.
- Thepractice ofroleplaying.
