rôleplaying

rôleplaying (uncountable)

1. Dated form of roleplaying.
   • 1954, Werkcentrum voor leketoneel en creatief spel, Cahiers, Purmerend: J. Muusses, →OCLC, page 53:

     Rôleplaying in Action. New York State School of Industrial- and labour^[sic] Relations. Cornell University, bulletin 16, may^[sic] 1951. Rôleplaying in Management Training. In: Sociatry, Vol. 2, 1947. Audience Rôleplaying, a New Method in Human Relations Training.

   • 1958, Folia psychiatrica, neurologica et neurochirurgica Neerlandica, volume 61, Amsterdam: N.V. Uitgevers- en Drukkers Maatschappij F. van Rossen, →OCLC, page 148:

     Well conducted staffconferences^[sic] and rôleplaying are among the best training facilities, that are relatively easily available.

   • 1965, South African Industry and Trade, volume 61, Johannesburg: South African Publishers, →OCLC, page 95, column 3:

     The general atmosphere of the is described by Professor Boland as “exposure of the student to a large number of practical business situations by case studies, projects, business games, rôleplaying, films, field trips and programme learning. […]”

   • 1973, Audio-Visual Language Journal, volume XI, British Association for Language Teaching, →OCLC, pages 9–10:

     To be more specific about the types of exercise for which these systems are designed, the following may be identified: repetition, manipulation drills, question and answer, rôleplaying, guided oral composition, aural comprehension with spoken responses, and consecutive translation.

   • 2010, Lisa Keränen, “Scientists under Scrutiny: The Centrality of Character in Science-Based Controversy”, in Scientific Characters: Rhetoric, Politics, and Trust in Breast Cancer Research, Tuscaloosa, Ala.: University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 30:

     If ethos and persona derive, in large part, from cultural mores, voice emerges through performance. As Walter Ong put it, “Voice is the foundation for rôleplaying among men.”

rôleplaying

1. present participle and gerund of rôleplay