larp
📖 Definitions
noun
A role-playing game in which participants assume various characters and use costumes and props.
verb intr.
1. To play such a game.
2. To pretend to be what one is not.
💬 Usage Examples
“If Collins is pro-choice, then I’m Baba Yaga. It’s time the political press stopped playing along with her centrist LARPing.” Erin Gloria Ryan; It’s Time to Stop Calling Susan Collins “Pro-Choice”; The Daily Beast (New York); Sep 25, 2021. “Chaos League, the Italian collective, created a larp about water shortages in the developing world, in which players received only half a litre of water per day.” Neima Jahromi; The Great Pretenders; The New Yorker; May 30, 2022.