Player

Role or adjective

• 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

• Player (surname)

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
• "The Player" (Jolin Tsai song), 2018

Television

• Player (TV channel), former name of Bravo 2, television channel in the United Kingdom
• The Player Channel, television channel in the United Kingdom
• Player.pl, a Polish VOD service
• 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), a piece of software tailored for playing back different forms of multimedia file formats
• Player Project, a robot interface specification and software system
• VMware Player

Technology

• 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