: a live-action role-playing game in which a group of people enacts a fictional scenario (such as a fantasy adventure) in real time typically under the guidance of a facilitator or organizer
LARPers can dive into Marvel-, Harry Potter-, or pirate-themed events (to name a few), or select LARPs based on their … battle styles. Briana Shemroske
I've been to LARPs before where, when you show up, they make you put on garb. That is to say, they make you wear period-appropriate clothes … Margaret Killjoy
No matter what the LARP genre—espionage, historical reenactment, science fiction, swords and sorcery—the concept is the same. Ethan Gildsorf
also: the activity of participating in such games : larpingentry 1
Live action role play, or larp, is a combination of re-enactment, storytelling and gaming—players are given a role and act out their character's actions within an overarching story. Tash Reith-Banks