role-playing

verb

variants also roleplaying
present participle of role-play
as in enacting

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for role-playing
  1. enacting
  2. acting out
  3. depicting
  4. rendering
  5. representing
  6. taking on
  7. playing
Verb
  • Tomlin, Fonda and Parton played a trio of secretaries who took revenge on their sexist boss by kidnapping him and enacting changes in the workplace in his name.
    — Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 29 Aug. 2026
  • The appeal came less than 24 hours after Talwani issued a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking parts of USPS’s new rule enacting new guardrails on mail-in voting in the name of election security.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of enacting
Verb
  • Garcia lends the whole song theater-kid interpretation, essentially acting out the lyrics in pantomime, grasping out in front of her, clutching her face.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 25 Aug. 2026
  • When the child started acting out at home, his family reportedly started asking questions of the boy and made a report to law enforcement.
    — Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of acting out
Verb
  • Images depicting the deaths of Trump and members of his family have since featured prominently in Iranian calls for revenge.
    — Chad de Guzman, Time, 26 Aug. 2026
  • There’s a new, algorithm-jacking crop of clips depicting record-breaking (and just, uh, breaking) humanoid Chinese robots thanks to the recent World Humanoid Robot Games in Beijing.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of depicting
Verb
  • Russia is slowly edging towards its territorial goal of taking the Donbas – albeit through rendering the remaining ground held by Ukraine uninhabitable through horrific drone strikes on all signs of civilian and military life.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
  • The hospital’s only refrigerator capable of storing blood donations was also damaged by a power surge following the quake, rendering transfusions impossible.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of rendering
Verb
  • Among the men who publicly defended the klan, representing them in court cases in the 1970s and ’80s, was an attorney named John Edmond Mays.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 25 Aug. 2026
  • But the auction process has angered the union representing Spirit’s former flight attendants.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of representing
Verb
  • Before taking on her first solo anchoring role, Hylton frequently served as a fill-in anchor across the network’s morning, dayside and primetime programming.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 31 Aug. 2026
  • As the world expands, Musashi can go around taking on requests from the townfolk for resources to upgrade his sword, armor, and gauntlet.
    — Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of taking on
Verb
  • The service got its name from the original Mechanical Turk, an 18th century chess-playing robot that was actually controlled by a human chess master.
    — Annie Palmer, CNBC, 26 Aug. 2026
  • If your dog has any dental issues, playing any type of pulling game is not advisable.
    — BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of playing
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“Role-playing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/role-playing. Accessed 2 Sep. 2026.

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