role playing

See also: role-playing, rôle playing, rôle-playing, roleplaying, and rôleplaying

English

Noun

role playing (usually uncountable, plural role playings)

1. Alternative form of roleplaying.
   • 2006, Bitch: feminist response to pop culture, numbers 31-34:

     Nola is actually "Nurse Nola," a dominatrix who specializes in medical role playing.

   • 2012, Mia Downing, chapter 6, in Spy Games: Lethal Limits (Spy Games; 2), Adams Basin, N.Y.: The Wild Rose Press, →ISBN, page 95:

     “It’s role playing. We’ve done this a lot.” / She gave him a look that hopefully told him she questioned his sanity. “Crazy role playing.” / “Really?” He arched a brow and stepped between her legs. “Crazier than me being the dungeon master? Crazier than naughty virgin school girl, French maid—which I really, really liked—or my absolute favorite, Master and slave?”

   • 2008 March 5, Keith Stuart, “Gary Gygax, co-creator of D&D, dies at 69”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 7 October 2014:

     As for the MMORPG genre, which, with its elements of co-operation and human interaction, gets closest to the spirit of role playing as Gygax envisioned it, the influence of D&D is just as profound, from Ultima Online, all the way through to Everquest^[sic] and of course, Dungeons and Dragons Online.

Verb

role playing

1. present participle and gerund of role play