rôleplay

present singular third person rôleplays · participle present rôleplaying · participle past rôleplayed · past rôleplayed

1. Dated spelling of roleplay.

   Talking of sex rôleplaying, I must phone Janice :)

   1999 January 2, Ouroboros, “Getting to know you more”, in uk.media.tv.friends (Usenet)

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   Looking at Traveller, I’d say offhand that the two most alien major races are the K’kree and the Hivers. But even they can be “explained” (well enough to rôleplay, anyway).

   1998 December 11, Jeff Zeitlin, “Holy grail of SFRPGs? (re: traveller et al.)”, in rec.games.frp.misc (Usenet)

plural rôleplays

1. countableuncountableDated spelling of roleplay.

   Find a friend and attempt the following rôleplay in order to clarify the dialogue: Friend: “I think it is sunny in London.” You: “I think it is sunny in Brighton.” Friend: “Well, yes, but not as sunny.”

   1998 August 19, tim_walls, “Thicky Passengers!”, in uk.railway (Usenet)

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   On this basis it becomes clear why Bühler occasionally describes the symbols as rôle-indicating signs (cf. 1934: 381); though they are capable of undertaking a transference from the occurrence of the speech situation, they are unable to do without deictic pointers to produce the rôleplay in language.

   1983, Gérard Deledalle, Semiotics and Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Perpignan Symposium, John Benjamin’s Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 124, →ISBN