LARPn.
/lɑːp/, U.S. /lɑrp/ = live-action role-playing n. at live adj.1, n., and adv. Compounds; (also) a live-action role playing game.
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1990 Live Action Role Playing: We did It! in rec.games.frp (Usenet newsgroup) 30 Jan. Our LARP was a success... Myself with two other friends pulled off our first Live Action Role Playing Game.
1994 Washington Times (Nexis) 14 Apr. m4 There's also a small but growing segment of role playing known as live-action role playing (LARP), where players actually dress up as knights or wizards armed with Nerf balls and physically act out games.
2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. vii. 87 There was a pub, in a large plush tent, run by a lovely couple who spent their weekends selling people mead and ale at LARP events and Civil War reenactments.
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LARPv.
/lɑːp/, U.S. /lɑrp/ intransitive. To participate in live-action role-playing.
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1990 Re: Live Action Role Playing—We did It! in rec.games.frp (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Feb. We have LARPped [sic] many times and are still enjoying it.
1996 Washington Post (Nexis) 14 July f1 The..couple has been larping since 1992, when Dirk debuted as a mad vivisectionist in a sci-fi game and was so excited that Moira had to sample live-action too, so she played Grover in ‘Murder on Sesame Street’.
2006 Wired Apr. 141 I'll Larp forever. I'll play old Godfather-type characters in wheelchairs when I'm 80.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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