The phrase "act as players" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where individuals are taking on roles or behaving in a manner similar to players in a game or performance.
Example: "In this exercise, participants will act as players in a simulated negotiation to better understand the dynamics of conflict resolution."
Alternatives: "function as participants" or "perform as actors".
Last month, Nihon TV, a private broadcaster, removed online videos intended to explain the rules of rugby in the runup to this year's World Cup in England and Wales, following complaints that it had used scantily clad women to act as players.
When operating in a competitive environment, the wireless network users act as players that contend against each other and select a strategy space of data rate and willingness to pay, i.e., price, and as a result of their choices achieve a payoff expressed by their utility.
The current study intended to clarify the pathways of nephropathy evolution in a protocol of conversion from CsA to SRL in the rat, focusing on serum, urine, and renal (gene and protein) tissue samples, as well as to elucidate the involvement of several emergent biomarkers of renal damage which are putative candidates to act as players in the evolution from renal dysfunction to nephrotoxicity.
The current study was intended to clarify the pathways of nephropathy evolution in a protocol of conversion from CsA to SRL in the rat, focusing on serum, urine, and renal (gene and protein) tissue samples, as well as to elucidate the involvement of several emergent biomarkers of renal damage which are putative candidates to act as players in the evolution from renal dysfunction to nephrotoxicity.
As Eva Longoria supersedes Karl Rove as a power player, Republicans act as shellshocked as the Southern gentry overrun by Yankee carpetbaggers in "Gone with the Wind".
Player: you act as a player.
In plant cytokinin (CK) signaling, type-B response regulators (RRs) act as major players in orchestrating the transcriptome changes in response to CK.
This viral catalog and functional analyses provide a necessary foundation for the meaningful integration of viruses into ecosystem models where they act as key players in nutrient cycling and trophic networks.
To assist in making the training as realistic as possible, a contractor supplies some 190 Afghan-American citizens who act as role players.
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that act as key players in the post-transcriptional regulation of protein synthesis.
More recently, miRNAs have emerged as oncogenes or tumour suppressors that act as central players in networks that establish regulatory circuits in cancers.
