role-playとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From role (“expected behavior”) + play (“perform, act”).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈrəʊl.pleɪ/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈroʊl.pleɪ/

動詞

roleplay (third-person singular simple present roleplays, present participle roleplaying, simple past and past participle roleplayed)

1. (intransitive) To act out a scenario or fantasy with another person or other people.

   To spice up their sex life, they like to roleplay.

2. (transitive) To act as a character as part of a fantasy, especially with a group.

   He likes to roleplay a vampire.

   • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 30:18 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918‎, archived from the original on 4 August 2022:

     The particular person roleplaying Beatty in that battle suggested summarily executing Seymour and dumping him overboard.

3. (transitive, intransitive) To act out a social role, especially one that one does not truly belong to.

   He talks like he's some scrappy bootstrap entrepreneur but he's just some old money rich kid roleplaying.

   • 1982 December 11, Catherine Joseph, “Breaking Barriers”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 21, page 10:

     Realizing that she was an 'other' not only as a black woman but also as a black lesbian, she struggles to fiind someplace where she and other black lesbians like herself could live out their existence without role-playing or conforming to the ideals that were prevalent in the bars at that time.

等位語

• (act out a social role): pass

名詞

roleplay (countable and uncountable, plural roleplays)

1. The act or practice of roleplaying; an instance of roleplaying.
   • 1985 August 17, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 6, page 13:

     Lesbian, 34, seeks lesbians who enjoy occasional anal sex and role plays. Light s/m ok too.

   • 2008 November 21, Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Season 3, Episode 1:

     Roy: Let's do some roleplay, OK? Do you think that would be a good idea?
     Moss: It helped me learn how to buy sandwiches.

2. The practice of roleplaying.

同意語

• RP

参考

• RPG
• LARP
• roleplayer

アナグラム

• e-payroll, playlore