Definition of "real life" []

• Life outside of a contrived or fantastical environment; often used in comparison to events depicted in drama. (noun)
• Life outside the Internet. (noun)
• Pressing day-to-day commitments: real life intervened. (noun)
• Not fictional; actually happening or capable of happening. (adjective)

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• "There will be a fabulous sound track and great production design, and, despite my cynicism, I will allow myself, for a ten-dollar ticket, to take a giddy two-hour break, to drop and cover from real life and all the present-day crashings and bombings and viruses and lies."
• "Billy Farrell/BFA Jeff Bridges performs with T Bone Burnett In actuality, this was one of those really special nights that you wish all your friends could experience, if not in real life than at least on television."
• "And discussing college or the future or anything that involved a discussion of my life—the real life that would start post-Milton—was the equivalent of discussing my coochie, if I were to continue with that metaphor."