instant replay

1. 1.

   the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape

   Synonymsreplayaction replay

   Broaderrepetition

   United Kingdom · television

Questions about instant replay

What does instant replay mean?

instant replay means "the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape".

What is another word for instant replay?

Close synonyms include replay, action replay. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is instant replay a common word?

instant replay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.