Usually means: Assuming roles for interactive storytelling.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word role-playing:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. role-playing: Merriam-Webster
  2. role-playing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. role-playing: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. role-playing, role-playing: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Role-Playing, Role-playing, role-playing: Wordnik
  6. role-playing: Wiktionary
  7. role-playing: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. role-playing: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. role-playing: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. role-playing: Dictionary.com
  11. Role-playing: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. role-playing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Role-Playing: Cybernetics and Systems

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. role-playing: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. role-playing: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Role-playing: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (role-playing)

▸ noun:  Action in which a person takes on a role (as that of an actor) and acts out being that character.

Similar:
stageplaying, psychodrama, method acting, personality, player versus environment, simulationism, person, praxis, appersonation, drama, more...

Opposite:
breaking character, being oneself, authenticity

Phrases:
role-playing game, role-playing games, role-playing video game, Action role-playing game, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, more...

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Similar:
stageplaying, psychodrama, method acting, personality, player versus environment, simulationism, person, praxis, appersonation, drama, more...

Opposite:
breaking character, being oneself, authenticity

Phrases:
role-playing game, role-playing games, role-playing video game, Action role-playing game, Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, Tabletop role-playing game, Tactical role-playing game, more...



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