Recess area

Usage examples of schoolyard.

I spoke with him as a six-year-old boy in a schoolyard on Ho Roka, where he grew up.

Senators and governors were out in the snow, picking up baby livestock, milking cows, standing in schoolyards wrapped up in heavy overcoats, tossing footballs to red-faced blond kids.

He thought how clean she was, her hands and fingernails, and how straightforward and unlike the gigglers in the schoolyard.

The schoolyard, once the near-majestic tableaux of the huge Old Central School on its low hill, surrounded by ancient playgrounds and sentinel elms, was now just this flat and treeless patch of weeds poking through dirty snow, the field littered with some sad plastic playground equipment, an empty parking lot, and some town storage sheds.

Babe, the compact Babe, could pass without stooping beneath the set of former schoolyard monkey bars per durably cemented to the grounds of the Senior Village complex.

The damn thing was more relentless than the drug dealers in the city, who did their come-on shtick for kids at schoolyard fences, on street corners, in videogame parlors, outside movie theaters, at the malls, wherever they could find a venue, indefatigable, as hard to eradicate as body lice.

The land on both sides of the Griffen Road was owned by Charles Griffen, who was the biggest dairy farmer south of Mechanic Falls, and from Schoolyard Hill you could see Griffen's huge barn with its aluminum roof glittering in the sun like a monstrous heliograph.

He had a red hook-nosed face with deep lines, a bully's face the face of the schoolyard terror who had never grown up.

He had a red hook-nosed face with deep lines, a bully's face - the face of the schoolyard terror who had never grown up.

I'll wait until midnight and then walk through the grim regions of the city: Harlem, Fort Greene, Red Hook, Bed-Stuy, East New York, the Bowery, in and out of the parks, schoolyards, wino bars, through the crooked alleys in Chinatown and along the vacant stretches between the Hudson piers.

The high school band turned left on Second Street and took another left by the schoolyard just a block east.

In sandy hot schoolyards, in cold wet schoolyards, my brother and I had slugged it out together, back to back.

Joey sort of waddled forward, throwing a lot of overhand rights and lefts without much in the way of control, trying to do it the way he'd done it in schoolyards and on playgrounds for most of his life.

He closed his eyes, and just for a moment imagined he heard children playing in the schoolyards – the noontime roar of mingled voices.

He hunted them on the playgrounds and the schoolyards and the parks of our city, luring those young and innocent bodies and minds with illegals.