Player may refer to:

Role or adjective

* Player (game), a participant in a game or sport **

Gamer A gamer is a proactive hobbyist who plays interactive games, especially video games, tabletop role-playing games, and skill-based card games, and who plays for usually long periods of time. Some gamers are competitive, meaning they routinely ...

, a player in video and tabletop games **

Athlete An athlete (also sportsman or sportswoman) is a person who competes in one or more sports that involve physical strength, speed, or endurance. Athletes may be professionals or amateurs. Most professional athletes have particularly well-devel ...

, a player in sports **

Player character A player character (also known as a playable character or PC) is a fictional character in a video game or tabletop role-playing game whose actions are controlled by a player rather than the rules of the game. The characters that are not control ...

, 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 multinational company (MNC), also referred to as a multinational enterprise (MNE), a transnational enterprise (TNE), a transnational corporation (TNC), an international corporation or a stateless corporation with subtle but contrasting senses, i ...

, 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 An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ...

* Player (slang), a

philanderer Promiscuity is the practice of engaging in sexual activity frequently with different partners or being indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners. The term can carry a moral judgment. A common example of behavior viewed as promiscuous by man ...

, often male

People

Willa Beatrice Player Willa Beatrice Player (August 9, 1909 – August 29, 2003) was an American educator, college administrator, college president, civil rights activist, and federal appointee. Player was the first African-American woman to become president of a four- ...

(1909-2003), American Educator * Gary Player (born 1935), South African golfer * Scott Player (born 1969), former NFL punter * T-Dre Player (born 1992), Canadian football player

Art, entertainment, and media

* ''The Player'', 1988 novel by Michael Tolkin, the basis for the 1992 film * ''The Player'' (1953 film) * ''The Player'' (1992 film), an American film

Music

* Player (band), a 1970s rock band from Los Angeles, California * ''Player'' (Player album), 1977 * ''Player'' (M. Pokora album), 2006 * ''Player'' (Capsule album), 2010 * ''The Player'' (First Choice album), 1974 * ''The Player'' (The Supermen Lovers album), 2001 * "Player" (song), a 2015 song by Tinashe

Television

* Player (TV channel), former name of Bravo 2, television channel in the United Kingdom * The Player Channel, television channel in the United Kingdom * ''The Player'' (Algerian TV series), a 2004 Algerian drama series * ''The Player'' (2004 TV series), a 2004 American reality series * ''The Player'' (2015 TV series), a 2015 American drama series * ''Player'' (TV series), a 2018 South Korean TV series * ''The Player'' (Thai TV series), a 2020 Thai drama series

Computing

Media player (software) Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files. Media players commonly display standard media controls, media control icons known from physical devices such as tape record ...

, a piece of software tailored for playing back different forms of multimedia file formats * Player Project, a robot interface specification and software system

Technology

Blu-ray Disc The Blu-ray Disc (BD), often known simply as Blu-ray, is a Digital media, digital optical disc data storage format. It was invented and developed in 2005 and released on June 20, 2006 worldwide. It is designed to supersede the DVD format, and c ...

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 * 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