Synonyms of videotapes

videotapes 1 of 2

noun

plural of videotape

as in videos

a recording (as of a movie) for playback on a TV

watched a videotape of her daughter's first ballet recital

Synonyms & Similar Words

• videos
• tapes
• DVDs
• tape recordings
• vids
• videocassettes
• videodiscs
• laser discs

videotapes

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of videotape

as in films

Related Words

• films
• images
• pictures
• photographs
• photos
• retakes
• rephotographs
• snaps
• mugs
• shoots

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of videotapes

Noun

Its frame story involves a crime-busting couple who, while searching for a missing coed, must view a variety of videotapes. — Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 7 July 2026

Not long after the revolution, bootleg audio and videotapes began circulating in Tehran. — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 29 June 2026

Within weeks, sales of videotapes, CDs, and audio cassettes of her performance raised more than $500,000 for the American Red Cross Gulf Crisis Fund. — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 3 Feb. 2026

Living among vinyl records, books and videotapes – relics of a life once fully lived — Al finds his fragile balance shattered when a real estate company targets his home for demolition, forcing him to confront both material and emotional dispossession. — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Jan. 2026

Blockbuster, which distributed DVDs and videotapes through retail stores nationwide, didn’t pivot – and didn’t survive. — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2026

Amid towering speakers, gold records, stacks of videotapes, Sony Trinitrons, overflowing ashtrays, and a bar stocked with tequila and a lineup of squat green Dom Pérignon bottles sent over by the labels, the Les Garland Show streamed. — Tom Freston, Vulture, 28 Oct. 2025

Hunt was a pro tennis pioneer, as well, and the source of that film is a trove of some 600 videotapes of tournaments around the world that reside on shelves inside SubTropolis. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025

Mostly videotapes of shows, but also albums and books. — Touré, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025