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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
recreation
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
recreation ground
recreation room
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
▪ Physical benefits may relate directly to the health relationship with active recreation.
▪ This has led to a marked growth in active recreation.
outdoor
▪ What features of the city plan make it a pleasant place for outdoor recreation?
▪ There may not be a better bargain in Indiana than outdoor recreation.
▪ But for those who choose arduous outdoor recreations like climbing, water sports and ski-ing this is particularly so.
▪ It is a city more in tune with outdoor recreation than cultural institutions, but it rains there.
▪ We expect more outdoor recreation, exploring the local hills and fjords.
▪ There is a fantastic array of outdoor recreation destinations available right now.
▪ The ensuing conflict has been sharpened by the phenomenal growth of outdoor recreation during the last two decades.
▪ My conclusion is that the conditions for outdoor recreation are the best I have ever seen them.
physical
▪ She had to cover five areas: expedition, residential, physical recreation, service and skills.
▪ She also studied badminton as part of physical recreation.
▪ Thanks to its vigorous and far-seeing headmaster, it also found time for physical recreation, handiwork classes and art.
■ NOUN
activity
▪ Apart from damage caused by trampling and erosion, more widespread and long-lasting degradation can occur as a result of recreation activities.
▪ They see the outdoors as a recreation activity, not a job opportunity.
▪ Becker's household production approach provides an alternative model of consumer demand for sport and recreation activities.
▪ Table 8.2 shows an interesting relationship with Table 5.3, which shows the levels of participation in various sport and recreation activities.
▪ The main question to be answered is how to distinguish between active sport and more general leisure and recreation activities.
area
▪ Before the building of the street the local lime wood was famous as a recreation area.
▪ San Pablo, an 850-acre reservoir and recreation area, receives nearly 400, 000 visitors per year, most who fish.
▪ We must have White schools, White residential neighborhoods and recreation areas.
▪ The federal Bureau of Reclamation manages the recreation area and was working with the resorts on the problems, officials said.
center
▪ Over in a corner, at the entrance to the recreation center, is a small grove of banana and ficus trees.
▪ The recreation center is the first phase of the one-third-acre project.
▪ At age 10, she began tagging along when her brothers would head out to the neighborhood playgrounds and recreation centers.
▪ In 1989, the Golden Hill recreation center needed a new roof and repainting.
▪ The team is crammed into a small, windowless conference room at the University of Southern California student recreation center.
▪ Their forces shut dozens of schools, mosques and recreation centers in poor neighborhoods throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
committee
▪ Permission has been requested by the Darlington council recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane.
▪ The money was given by the council's recreation committee.
▪ And the recreation committee yesterday agreed to replace it with a new wooden one costing £9,500.
▪ It will meet again on 3 March to make recommendations which the recreation committee will consider on 15 March.
▪ Members of the recreation committee on Thursday will consider giving £9,500 to replace the hut in North Park, Darlington.
▪ In future he wants the recreation committee to have the chance to veto controversial exhibitions.
facility
▪ Britain even lagged behind the United States in the provision of industrial recreation facilities.
▪ But they also use many city services, from the Community Center to Tucson parks and recreation facilities.
▪ Most recreation facilities like swimming pools and sports halls are under their control.
▪ They have begun to offer their customers choices-of schools, of recreation facilities, even of police services.
▪ They can also help to make exercise opportunities available to their elderly clients by encouraging local recreation facilities to provide special classes.
▪ Street improvements and improvements in park and recreation facilities were widespread among the neighborhoods phased in by the second-year stage.
▪ Is social development any more than the provision of village halls and recreation facilities?
ground
▪ Police are urging people playing bowls last tuesday at Kingsthorpe recreation ground to get in touch if they have any information.
▪ Another inmate apparently stabbed the Hispanic inmate on the recreation grounds at 12: 49 p. m. Monday.
▪ Club attack: Glue-sniffing vandals are being blamed for attacks on the bowling pavilion in Hartlepool's Grayfields recreation ground.
▪ Hiltons also gave the lower recreation ground to the parish in exchange for land elsewhere.
▪ The Sun Hill recreation ground is in need of similar treatment to that of Stratton Bates.
▪ It is the private playground of children, the recreation ground of adults, and home for wildlife.
room
▪ Sometimes this would be a church hall, sometimes a Territorial Army drill hall, occasionally even a London Transport recreation room.
▪ Naptime was from four to five, and then he watched the evening news on television in the recreation room.
▪ She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her.
▪ The recreation room was reminiscent of the dole office.
▪ Children and adults can enjoy the recreation room with snooker, table tennis and darts facilities as well as the croquet lawn outside.
▪ About mid-February there was a lull in the bombing, and the recreation room could be used.
▪ No chapel, no school, no recreation room, no pub, no social life of any kind really.
▪ Prisoners, unable to exercise outside in sub-zero temperatures, had been allowed longer in the recreation rooms.
■ VERB
use
▪ For conservation is part of the lifeblood of all of us who use the outdoors for recreation.
▪ There is considerable pressure to use these waters for recreation, and they receive much disturbance.
▪ One problem is that, apart from supplying timber, the commission's forests are used for recreation and conservation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Families use the space for recreation.
▪ The afternoons at the conference were left free for recreation.
▪ Vancouver is a city more in tune with outdoor recreation than cultural institutions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Hiltons also gave the lower recreation ground to the parish in exchange for land elsewhere.
▪ Increasingly, the use of land for recreation is a feature of the Pentland Hills.
▪ The Dallas Parks and Recreation Department operates a full-service recreation center 24 hours a day, for people who work odd shifts.
▪ The directors of finance, human resources and the parks and recreation departments would no longer need this approval.
▪ Then the Council needs to look at its pricing structure for recreation and other services.
▪ They see the outdoors as a recreation activity, not a job opportunity.
▪ Until now the area of freshwater recreation has been sadly neglected.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Recreation

Recreation \Rec"re*a"tion\ (-?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]cr['e]ation, L. recreatio.] The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recreation

late 14c., "refreshment or curing of a person, refreshment by eating," from Old French recreacion (13c.), from Latin recreationem (nominative recreatio) "recovery from illness," noun of action from past participle stem of recreare "to refresh, restore, make anew, revive, invigorate," from re- "again" (see re-) + creare (see create). Meaning "refresh oneself by some amusement" is first recorded c.1400.\n

\nA verb recreate "to refresh by physical influence after exertion" is attested from early 15c. and was used by Lyly, Pope, Steele, and Harriet Martineau, but it did not take, probably to avoid confusion with recreate.

Wiktionary
recreation

Etymology 1 n. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates. Etymology 2

alt. 1 The process of recreating something. 2 The result of this process. n. 1 The process of recreating something. 2 The result of this process.

WordNet
recreation

  1. n. an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates; "scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists"; "for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles"; "drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation" [syn: diversion]

  2. activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation; "time for rest and refreshment by the pool"; "days of joyous recreation with his friends" [syn: refreshment]

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Wikipedia
RéCréation

RéCréation is a 1999 double album recorded by French singer Florent Pagny. It was his fifth studio album and his seventh album overall. It was on October 26, 1999, and achieved success in France and Belgium (Wallonia), where it remained charted respectively for 21 and 24 weeks, including a peak at #1 and at #4. This album contains cover versions of various successful songs originally recorded by other artists. There were two singles from this album : "Jolie môme" (#13 in France, #11 in Belgium) and "Les parfums de sa vie (je l'ai tant aimée)" (#38 in France, #30 in Belgium).

Recreation (film)

Recreation is a short comedy film written, directed, and starring Charlie Chaplin. It was released on 13 August 1914.

Recreation (disambiguation)

Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.

recreation may also refer to:

  • Recreation (film), a 1914 film
  • RéCréation, album by Florent Pagny
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Usage examples of "recreation".

Louis Philippe found a home in England, at first at Claremont, and then in Abingdon House, Kensington, where he lived for some time in apparently tranquil enjoyment, the delightful and salubrious vicinity affording to his family means of retired and pleasurable recreation.

She had never really found a partner that inspired a lot of interest in it for her, but the company required employees to share sexual favors, not necessarily as recreation, but to cut down on emotional stress and she participated often enough to keep her name off of the antisocial list.

There were recreation parks, gymnasiums, baths of various kinds, such as hydrotherapy, electrotherapy, and others.

I think Egyptian picture-writing came easy because I have analyzed so many hundreds of photoplay films, merely for recreation, and the same style of composition is in both.

Bloomtown Community Swimming Pool and Recreation Center, which had just reopened following a polio scare.

Alura Quist to the Commandant, Corps Galactica Repair, Refit and Recreation Base, Cyclops.

He had been told that clients expected telex facilities: a time would come perhaps when clients would expect to find Coca-Cola dispensers and computer games placed in the waiting room for their refreshment and recreation, and it might well be that Chambers would have to bow to their wishes, but he could not help hoping that that day would be deferred to some time beyond his own retirement.

Such recreations are now unclerical in the highest degree, or if not in the highest, they are only one degree less so than hunting.

Divine Office and in long mental prayers, and how all of our recreation, pleasure, and happiness is to serve, love, and give pleasure to the beloved Lord, attempting to imitate his holy virtues, to mortify and villify ourselves, to suffer contempt, hunger, thirst, heat, cold, and other inconveniences for his love.

Four of the Cydonia Base habitat was a wardroom which served jointly as the galley, dining area, conference room, and recreation area.

At Kwajalein, we were taken to one of the little islands for recreation, and as decided, the boats were lifted to the gunwale, the men and dogs loaded, the boats lowered to the water and we were on our way in ten minutes.

They entered Lovers Key State Recreation Area and crossed the bridge at Big Carlos Pass onto Estero Island.

When Weston raised a protest, Cranston reminded him that since the grillroom was used as an office, it could be employed for recreation, too.

Between Data Deck and Environmental was Crew, or Troop Deck, which had, in addition to crew quarters, recreation facilities, and mess, the sick bay and medical laboratory.

It was to translate back into Latin and learn in the recreation hour to recite at supper that evening, a Lenten hymn.