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role playing

verb, noun

role playing is a verb meaning “present participle and gerund of role play” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-L-E-P-L-A-Y-I-N-G.

What does role playing mean?

verb

  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of role play (a form of role play)

noun

as role-playing
  1. 1

    Alternative form of roleplaying.

noun

as rôle playing
  1. 1

    datedDated form of roleplaying.

noun

as rôle-playing
  1. 1

    datedDated form of roleplaying.

verb

as role-playing
  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of role-play (a form of role-play)

verb

as rôle playing
  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of rôle play (a form of rôle play)

verb

as rôle-playing
  1. 1

    present participle and gerund of rôle-play (a form of rôle-play)

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of roleplaying.

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

Forms of role playing

  • role-playings plural
  • role playings plural

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

Words people confuse with role playing

Also written: roleplaying (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).