Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
WordNet
n. a room equipped for informal entertaining [syn: rec room]
Wikipedia
A recreation room (also known as a rec room, rumpus room, or ruckus room) is a room used for a variety of purposes, such as parties, games and other everyday or casual use. The term is common in the United States, Australia and Canada, but is less common in the United Kingdom where the preferred term is games room. Often children and teenagers entertain their friends in the rec room, which is often located in the basement, away from the main living areas of the house. Usually it is a larger space than a living room to have the ability to serve multiple purposes and entertain moderately large groups.
Usage examples of "recreation room".
After that, each of the others claimed time with her in the common dining recreation room, and filtered through her office, to pass the time between shifts, making her feel very welcome.
As I look back, there was none in the recreation room or the kitchen.
Terl decided he had better not talk about this in the recreation room.
That night he sat smugly in the employee recreation room, responding to no questions, quietly drinking his kerbango in a very self-satisfied way.
Every time, even though there had been so many, even though the fantasy fights in the Recreation Room had multiplied reality by a score of visions that seemed real while they were being dreamed.
They were going to wait in the basement recreation room until everyone was gone, and then go up to the second floor and wait by the men's lounge where Rick waited last night.
I didn't say anything to Sandy but this made me a bit curious so I had a look in the recreation room.
Harb stood in Rec One, the Enterprises main recreation room, and surveyed the crowded, noisy place with immense satisfaction.
He headed for a turbolift, inviting any of them to join him in the recreation room.
As it was raining the recreation room, if not crowded, was well filled and Mary Ann, lucky for once, had bagged a little table near the window and was busy, between chews at her pen and glances out of the window on to a view whose beauty was entirely lost on her, writing to her ma and da.
They tried to get another view from the ports in the recreation room but found that a degree of order had been instituted.
The recreation room had more card tables than hologram games, and an old-fashioned pool table that looked well used.
They floated in the center of the spherical recreation room, their faces laughing, their bodies as graceful as porpoises in the sea.
Brenda Wolff stood at the top of the steps that led down to the recreation room.