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Role Playing 

Role playing may refer to;
1) The act of dressing up as part of a sexual relationship.
2) Online games, eg World Of Warcraft, as in an MMORPG game, in which a person controls the actions of an on-screen character.
3) Using social networking sites, eg Bebo or MySpace to act out actions of a character either canon (from anime/manga/TV programmes/etc) or non-canon (original characters made up by the roleplayer).

Commonly associated with "geeks" and "nerds".
Commonly shortened to RP
1) Judy dressed up as a naughty school girl last night, it just got be so damn horny!
2) "My level 6 Orc pwned your measly elf!"
"It's only Role Playing dude...." o.O
3) ~The girl crept into the bar, her golden eyes flicking about at the people currently occupying the premises. She blinked, then grinned, straightening and throwing a giant water balloon at some randomers head, roflmfao-ing on the floor.~
Role Playing by InsanePwnerBish February 10, 2009

role playing 

Acting a role that is not your usual way of life.
When Tyrone and Chris got together, they played master and slave. Tyrone kept Chris in chains, said nasty things to him, and in general abused him. Later, they had sex with Tyrone on top.
role playing by Richard Black April 12, 2005

Role Playing 

Something nerds do on a regular basis. They pretend to be different characters and do battles/yiff or something like that.
It's easy to understand why nerds and other losers of the like spend most of their time role playing, pretending to be magical elves and shit on the internet; their pretending to be someone their not. Lol...
Role Playing by idonthavaname August 3, 2007

Role Playing 

This is something nerds do, which usually involves a meticulously complicated,fantasy board game that has cards, figures, rule/quest book thicker than the bible and a load of other wierd things too. I dont quite know the exact goal of these games (there doesent seem to be one), but all the players seem to do is quests and leveling up. Nerds especially love to let you know that they are a level 200 sword master (or whatever the fuck), and this seems to make them think that they are superior to everyone else. Maybe it compensates for the fact that they cant talk to beautiful women without:

1) Turning bright red.
2) Stuttering and saying something stupid.
3) Getting a hard on and being called a pervert.
Nerd: Hey im a level 200 sword master on dungeons and dragons, you are inferior to me you scum.

Me: Good for you. Here let me introduce you to my girlfriend.

Nerd: er er er er er er er...... DO YOU LIKE ROLE PLAYING??? its wicked awesome. Im a level 200 sword master.

My girlfriend: Youve got a fucking boner, get away from me you pervert.

Role-playing

1) A hobby in which players create or are given fictional characters to portray. There is usually a rule-system of some form, of which D&D is an example. In a group of players one (or sometimes more) persons will volunteer to be a Games Master - s/he will control all non-player characters, the environment the players interact in and arbitrate the rules.

2) A bedroom practise, in which partners dress up and pretend to be someone else for sexual satisfaction.
"My role-playing character is a barabarian warrior from the tundra!"
"Let's role-play, I want you in that school girl uniform again."
Role-playing by Robyn Saul January 21, 2004

Role-playing

A term used to describe the act of jacking off

The reason being is because the hand is pretending to be a vagina (Or "Role-playing" the role of a vagina)

**This term was coined by Ismael**
Josh was caught Role-playing in his World of Warcraft costume

"OK Class, we're going to be Role-playing today!"

Aaron loves Role-playing to feet
Role-playing by Isaac Hues May 9, 2008
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