LARP
/lɑːp
/noun
A type of role-playing game in which participants physically act out scenarios, typically using costumes and props: vampire LARPs play out in scores of cities around the US and as far away as Brazil and New Zealand...
- Look at films from the 80s like "Midnight Madness", about college students playing a LARP/scavenger hunt.
- If the LARP had ended there I would have been fine.
- "Good lord, you're watching a televised LARP!"
Derivatives
LARPer
- Inside there were a lot of people in medieval costumes (LARPers perhaps?) getting drunk and dancing around like fools.
- As a committed LARPer in my university days I think I resent your tone!
- I'm a recovering LARPer and storyteller, clean for three years now.
LARPing
- It strikes me as a good game for LARPing, which I don't usually enjoy.
- The gaming format now known as LARPing (Live Action Role-Playing) got its start in the early 1980s, and I was there.
- Combine that with a little LARPing, keep the amount of players small ...
Origin
1990s: from the initial letters of live-action role-playing..