role play
Simulate a scenario
Role play is acting out a character or scenario, whether for entertainment, education, or exploration.
Children role-play as doctors and teachers.
Training programs use role play to practice difficult conversations: We'll role-play a customer complaint.
In gaming, players adopt fictional personas.
In sexual contexts, partners enact fantasies: They're into role play.
Also spelled roleplay.
- psychodramaTherapy through enacted scenes
- actingTemporarily holding position
- improv comedyUnscripted comedic theater
- scene partnerFellow actor in dialogue
- LARPIn-person character embodiment game
live action · character creation · character sheet · cosplay · Dungeons & Dragons · dungeon master · charade · simulation games · tabletop gaming · exposure therapy · team-building activities · social skills training · language immersion · community theater · storytelling · make-believe · pantomime · persona
- dramaTV drama, acting, television drama, drama school, playwright
- Practicedrills, rehearsal, warm-up, warmup, exercises
- children's churchBible stories, Sunday school, children's ministry, memory verses, children's Bible
- drama trainingacting, acting class, acting workshop, drama club, drama games
- workshop activitiesbrainstorming, group work, breakout sessions, hands-on training, team building
- butler cafebutler, master, young master, white gloves, tailcoat
role playbeing oneself
Acting from true nature
real life · sincerity · authenticity · true self · straight talk