crossplayer

English

Two Star Wars crossplayers at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con.

Etymology

crossplay (“form of cosplay”) +‎ -er

Noun

crossplayer (plural crossplayers)

1. A cosplayer involved in crossplay.
   • 2014, Catherine Thomas, “'Love to Mess with Minds': En(gendering) Identities Through Crossplay”, in Ben Bolling, Matthew J. Smith, editors, It Happens at Comic-Con: Ethnographic Essays on a Pop Culture Phenomenon, McFarland, →ISBN, page 35:

     On the other hand, most male crossplayers refused to act in a "feminine" fashion in spite of being in the costume of a female character.