Roleplay covers scenes built around an imagined situation or set of characters, where the performers act out a scenario rather than simply appearing as themselves. The premise can be anything from a workplace encounter to a fantasy setup, and the framing is what the term points to, not any particular act. In gay material, roleplay sits alongside other descriptive terms such as amateur, anal, bareback, BDSM, big cock or hairy, which refer to circumstances or physical details instead of a scripted premise. Bareback, for instance, is about condom use rather than a separate activity, so it can appear next to roleplay without changing what roleplay itself means.