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ageplay

/eɪd͡ʒ pleɪ/noun, verb

ageplay is a noun meaning “A form of roleplay in which the player deliberately acts an age different from their own (and usually younger)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-E-P-L-A-Y, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does ageplay mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A form of roleplay in which the player deliberately acts an age different from their own (and usually younger).

verb

  1. 1

    To engage in ageplay; to role-play as a different age than one’s actual chronological age.

    American Motherhood, volume 22, Crist, Scott, & Parshall, 1905, →ISBN, page 101: “I have often entered a town on a late train, and have seen groups of children from eight to sixteen years of ageplaying around the stations, apparently unnoti

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce ageplay?

  • /eɪd͡ʒ pleɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of ageplay

  • age play
  • ageplays present, singular, he/she/it
  • ageplaying participle, present
  • ageplayed participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is ageplay?

Ageplay appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Ageplay in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense form of roleplay:

LanguageWords
Frenchjeu de régression, ageplay

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does ageplay come from?

Compound of age + play.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).