LARP

See also: larp

English

Two players engaged in a LARP.

Alternative forms

• larp

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑːp/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑɹp/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)p

Noun

LARP (plural LARPs)

1. (games) Acronym of live-action roleplaying.

Translations

live-action role-play

• Finnish: larppi (fi), elopeli, live-roolipeli, näytelmäroolipeli
• French: jeu de rôle grandeur nature (fr), jeu de rôle semi-réel
• Icelandic: kvikspunaspil n
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: laiv m

  Nynorsk: laiv m

• Swedish: lajv (sv) n

Verb

LARP (third-person singular simple present LARPs, present participle LARPing, simple past and past participle LARPed)

1. (games) Acronym of live-action roleplay.
   • 2006, John Ringo, Princess of Wands:

     “Which is why I'm thinking LARPer,” Griffith argued. “Goths interact with non-Goths more in LARPing than anywhere else. And there are non-Goth look people that hang with the Goths.”

2. (slang, by extension) To pretend to be something, or act as something.
   • 2022 June 30, Anton Jäger (@AntonJaegermm), Twitter‎^[1]:

     When you think about it it really is crazy that the true sovereign of the world's imperial hegemon is basically an academic seminar in which a couple of legal scholars larp as historians all day.

   • 2022 November 6, Mike White, “Italian Dream”, in Mike White, director, The White Lotus, season 2, episode 2, via HBO:

     Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza): I don't know what my problem is. I just feel like— I feel like we're LARPing as rich people.
     Ethan Spiller (Will Sharpe): We're not LARPing. How— how are we LARPing?

Derived terms

• LARPer
• parlour LARP

Related terms

• role-play
• role-playing
• role-playing game
• RPG

Translations

to engage in live-action role-play

• Finnish: larpata (fi)
• Icelandic: kvikspuna

to pretend to be something or act as something

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: cos (zh)

Anagrams

• ALPR