Glossary

Glossary of improv terms. Below you'll find tons of Improv-speak items along with their explanation.

Improv Glossary Items

• Accepting

• Advancing

• Agreement

• Ask-for

• Ask-for Continued

• Audience Suggestion

• Backline

• Backstory

• Backstory

• Beat

• Blackout

• Blocking

• Blue

• Breaking The Routine

• Bulldozing

• Canadian Cross

• Canceling

• Character Journal

• Chivalry

• Clap-in Edit

• Comedia dell arte

• Comedia dell arte characters

• Commenting

• Conflict

• Cross Fade

• Denial

• Edit

• Embodying

• Endowing

• Finding the Game

• Flash Forward

• Flashbacks

• Focus

• Freezing

• Fuck Your Fear

• Gagging

• Give and Take

• Gossiping

• Guerilla Improv

• Handle

• Hedging

• Heightening

• Hoedown

• Host

• Ignoring

• Impro

• Improv

• Instant Trouble

• Jabbertalk

• Joining

• Justifying

• Kabuki

• Lights Edit

• Line Game

• Long Form

• MC

• Monologue

• Mr. Nice Guy

• Mugging

• Narrative

• Never-ending Story

• Notes

• Object Work

• Offer

• Offer from Space

• Opening

• Organic Edit

• Out Of Your Head

• Overloading

• Pimping

• Platform

• Playlist

• Post Mortem

• Postponing

• Props

• Questions

• Raising The Stakes

• Rehearsal

• Reincorporating

• Revolving Door Edit

• Running Gag

• Self Edit

• Setup

• Shelving

• Shivving

• Short Form

• Sidecoaching

• Sideline

• Sidetracking

• Space Object

• Space Work

• Status

• Storytelling

• Subtext

• Sweep Edit

• Tag Out

• Taking Care of Yourself

• Talking Heads

• Third Idea Improv

• Tilts

• Time Dash

• Transaction Scene

• Transitions

• Truthfulness

• Voice-over Edit

• Waffling

• Walk-Through

• Wimping

• Yes And