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Player

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Player may refer to:

Role or adjective

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  • Player (game), a participant in a game or sport
    • Gamer, a player in video and tabletop games
    • Athlete, a player in sports
    • Player character, a character in a video game or role playing game who is controlled or controllable by a player
  • Player (political), a participant in politics who has or is perceived to have influence or power
  • Global player, a corporate organization that owns production of some good or service in at least one country other than its home country
  • Player, Shakespearan term for a stage actor
  • Player (slang), a philanderer, often male

People

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Art, entertainment, and media

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Music

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Television

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Computing

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Technology

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  • Blu-ray Disc player, a device that plays discs with high definition video
  • CD player, a device that plays audio discs
  • DVD player, a device that plays discs produced under both the DVD-Video and DVD-Audio technical standards
  • Portable media player (PMP) or digital audio player (DAP) (was often marketed as MP3 player), a device capable of storing and playing digital media such as audio, images, and video files
  • Player piano, a self-playing piano, containing a pneumatic or electro-mechanical mechanism that operates the piano action via pre-programmed music
  • Record player, a device that plays vinyl records
  • Tape player, a device that plays magnetic tapes

See also

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