rôleplay

From rôle +‎ play.

rôleplay (countable and uncountable, plural rôleplays)

1. Alternative spelling of roleplay.
   • 1983, Gérard Deledalle, Semiotics and Pragmatics: Proceedings of the Perpignan Symposium, John Benjamin’s Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 124, →ISBN:

     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.

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

     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.”

rôleplay (third-person singular simple present rôleplays, present participle rôleplaying, simple past and past participle rôleplayed)

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

     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).

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

     Talking of sex rôleplaying, I must phone Janice :)

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