player

Plural: players

Noun

• A person who participates in a game or sport, or performs music.
• a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
• someone who plays a musical instrument (as a profession)
• a theatrical performer
• a person who pursues a number of different social and sexual partners simultaneously
• an important participant (as in a business deal)
  • "he was a major player in setting up the corporation"
• One that plays.
• One that plays.
• One who plays any game or sport.
• One that plays.
• An actor in a dramatic play.
• One that plays.
• One who plays on a musical instrument.
• One that plays.
• A gamer; a person of video games or similar.
• One that plays.
• A gambler.
• One that plays.
• A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
• One that plays.
• An electronic device that plays audio or video media.
• One that plays.
• A software application that plays audio or video media, such as a media player.
• One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
• A participant; one involved in something.
• A participant; one involved in something.
• One who participates in a particular type of sexual play.
• A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.

Examples

• Every Scrabble player knows the thrill of finding a bingo on a crowded board.
• He is a player for the Australian team.
• He is an avid Minecraft player.

Synonyms

actor, histrion, instrumentalist, musician, participant, role player, thespian, adulterer, bed-hopper, carpetmonger, chamberer, debauchee, debaucher, fornicator, gallant, hood rat, laker, lecher, lewdster, libertine, philanderer, player, rake, rantipole, rizzler, roué, seducer, voluptuary, wanton

Related Words

baller