LARP
noun
live action role-playing: a fantasy role-playing game in which participants dress in costume, use props, and act out roles.
LARPing
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a word derived from
LARP.
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a word form of
LARP.
LARPnounlive action role-playing: a fantasy role-playing game in which participants dress in costume, use props, and act out roles.
Example Sentences
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This was back when LARPing had no life past Civil War reenactors, before cosplay went mainstream, before “Dungeons & Dragons,” Medieval Times restaurants and thatched-roof fantasy blockbuster movies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2024
Gibbons said Fox was engaged in live action role playing, or LARPing, not any real world conspiracy.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 8, 2022
This story may have started as an especially loony version of live action role play, or LARPing.
From Salon ● Mar. 21, 2021
Instead, MR had become the medium for a new kind of improvised LARPing, and that, in turn, seemed to have spawned new kinds of work.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2020
LARPing is Live Action Role Playing, and it's just about what it sounds like: running around in costume, talking in a funny accent, pretending to be a super-spy or a vampire or a medieval knight.
From Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
