Hospital recreation areas

Usage examples of dayrooms.

I make routine preparations in my rooms: the clearing of furniture, the borrowing of certain odd pieces from the dayrooms, the assembly of posted limits for squatting on the floor.

The airmen tumbled out of their quarters and dayrooms at the screech of the alert siren, and behind them their wives and children stretched and yawned and worried.

Haggard and hollow-eyed policemen stumbled home for a few hours sleep, others dropped like felled trees onto sofas and wooden benches in the guardrooms and dayrooms of the various stations.

There was a BOQ (called a hostel), with showers, dayrooms, a bar, and a library.