Home › Words › G › genderswappinggenderswappinggenderswapping · noun — the practice or act of assuming a different sex and/or gender identity than one's actual sex and/or gender identity, especially in a virtual setting.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, genderswapping ranks #17,001 of 43,042 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom gender + swapping.nounThe practice or act of assuming a different sex and/or gender identity than one's actual sex and/or gender identity, especially in a virtual setting.e.g.“Unlike the Chat rooms which are rampant with genderswapping (usually unconvincingly so) brief encounters, the MOO is both a world and a more or less stable community.” — 2000, Jamie Fowlie, “alt.eng.disc.clean.sex: discourse@online_bodi.es”, in M. José Coperías Aguilar, editor, Culture and Power: Challenging Discourses, Servei de Publicacions - Universitat de ValènciaDefinitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).