"role-playing" meaning in All languages combined

See role-playing on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: role-playings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} role-playing (usually uncountable, plural role-playings)
  1. Action in which a person takes on a role (as that of an actor) and acts out being that character. Tags: uncountable, usually Derived forms: role-playing game, roll-playing Related terms: LARP Translations (action in which a person takes on a role): jeu de rôle [masculine] (French), gioco delle parti [masculine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-role-playing-en-noun-JdRPa~Du
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: roleplaying

Verb [English]

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} role-playing
  1. present participle and gerund of role-play Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: role-play Derived forms: LARPing
    Sense id: en-role-playing-en-verb-dcvG2-wY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: roleplaying

Inflected forms

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