Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular presenttense replays, present participle replaying, past tense, past participle replayedpronunciation note: The verb is pronounced (riːpleɪ). The noun is pronounced (riːpleɪ).
1. verb [usually passive]
If a match between two sports teams is replayed, the two teams play it again, because neither team won the first time, or because the match was stopped because of bad weather.
[mainly British]
Drawn matches were replayed three or four days later. [beVERB-ed]
Synonyms: play again More Synonyms of replay
You can refer to a match that is replayed as a replay.
If there has to be a replay we are confident of victory.
2. verb
If you replay something that you have recorded on film or tape, you play it again in order to watch it or listen to it.
He stopped the machine and replayed the message. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: play back, play again, listen to again More Synonyms of replay
Replay is also a noun.
I watched a slow-motion replay of his fall. [+ of]
3. verb
If you replay an event in your mind, you think about it again and again.
She spends her nights lying in bed, replaying the fire in her mind. [VERB noun]
Synonyms: go over, relive More Synonyms of replay
4. See also action replay, instant replay
replay in British English
noun (ˈriːˌpleɪ)
1. Also called: action replay television
a showing again of a sequence of action, esp of part of a sporting contest immediately after it happens, either in slow motion (a slow-motion replay) or at normal speed
2.
a rematch
verb (riːˈpleɪ)
3. (transitive)
to play again (a record, television sequence, sporting contest, etc)
Examples of 'replay' in a sentence
replay
Presumably enabling you to see your pipes burst on action replay.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Again replays showed he was wrong.
The Sun (2017)
Had they been, the incident would have been replayed time and again in slow motion and that must be stopped too.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We watched the footage replayed again and again.
Christianity Today (2000)
His goal earned replay in round two.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Watching replays of her victory run induced nervousness.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
So ban action replays and there would be no controversy.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
It is not known if the match will be replayed.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
How did she feel seeing that wave replayed on film?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
This list of awful things will be replayed time and again if none of them gets better.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Bear one thought in mind when you replay that dazzling run of the debutant through your mind.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
If only there had been no action replays.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
But what will they think in the morning when they see their behaviour replayed on film?
The Sun (2007)
They drew the game and he ran out again for the replay there.
The Sun (2013)
Action replays showed there had been no contact.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Spectators gasped and gasped again when replays were shown.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
You can only go so far with slow-motion replays at the table football.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The match was replayed last Friday after they used an ineligible player in the first game.
The Sun (2015)
Without a slow-motion replay it is impossible to work out exactly what he has just done.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The elbow could clearly be seen on the slow-motion replay.
The Sun (2016)
Parts of it could include an immense plasma screen with constantly altering images and replays of the action that has occurred in the stadium.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Should football clubs be allowed to opt out of FA cup replay matches?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
It was a farce of a goal which needed about four TV replays to establish exactly what had happened.
The Sun (2010)
They sometimes played four replays of the FA Cup.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In other languages
replay
British English: replay /ˈriːˌpleɪ/ NOUN
A replay is a showing again of a sequence of action, esp of part of a sporting contest immediately after it happens.
If there has to be a replay we are confident of victory.
American English: replay
Arabic: يُعيدُ لَعِب
Brazilian Portuguese: replay
Chinese: 重放
Croatian: repriza
Czech: opakování záznamu ve sportovním přenosu
Danish: omspil
Dutch: herhaling
European Spanish: repetición
Finnish: uudelleen näyttö
French: reprise
German: Wiederholung
Greek: επανάληψη φάσης αγώνα
Italian: replay
Japanese: 再生
Korean: 다시보기
Norwegian: omspilling
Polish: powtórka
European Portuguese: repetir
Romanian: reluare
Russian: повтор
Latin American Spanish: repetición
Swedish: omspelning
Thai: การจัดการแข่งขันใหม่
Turkish: yeniden gösterim
Ukrainian: повторне відтворення
Vietnamese: việc chiếu lại
British English: replay /ˌriːˈpleɪ/ VERB
If a match between two sports teams is replayed, the two teams play it again, because neither team won the first time, or because the match was stopped because of bad weather.
Drawn matches were replayed three or four days later.
American English: replay
Arabic: يُعيدُ لَعِب
Brazilian Portuguese: repetição
Chinese: 重放
Croatian: ponovno odigrati
Czech: opakovat zápas
Danish: spille om
Dutch: opnieuw spelen
European Spanish: repetir obra
Finnish: näyttää uudestaan
French: rejouer
German: wiederholen Spiel
Greek: επαναλαμβάνω φάση αγώνα
Italian: ripetere
Japanese: 再生する
Korean: 재경기를 하다
Norwegian: spille på nytt
Polish: powtórzyć
European Portuguese: repetir uma imagem de vídeo ou filme