cosplayer

noun

cos·​play·​er ˈkäz-ˌplā-ər 

ˈkäs-

plural cosplayers

: someone who engages in cosplay

The costume artists, known as cosplayers (short for costume play), came from the across the Bay Area to take on the identities of their favorite fictional characters for the San Francisco Anime and Cosplay Festival in Japantown.

—Kevin Schultz

Examples of cosplayer in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

David Harbor found a Red Guardian cosplayer at the Thunderbolts* European premiere. —Tim Lammers, Forbes.com, 22 Apr. 2025

At Comic Con, a normie named Dwayne (Ansley Melham) with striking blue eyes—notable, because Betty’s seeing in color for the first time—shrugs her off as a weirdo cosplayer. —Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2025

The three-day convention welcomed stars from popular television shows and movies, comic book writers and illustrators, cosplayers, and vendors to celebrate their favorite stories. —Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2025

Or how about the highly respected conductor (Cate Blanchett) in Tar who slowly loses her mind before she is reduced, for her various misappropriations, to conducting a humiliating ragtag orchestra of cosplayers? —Valerie Monroe, Allure, 25 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1998, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cosplayer

• assayer
• ballplayer
• betrayer
• bilayer
• bricklayer
• conveyer
• conveyor
• purveyor
• ratepayer
• soothsayer
• surveyor
• taxpayer