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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
recreational

1650s, from recreation + -al (1). Related: Recreationally. Recreational drug attested from 1967.

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recreational

a. Used for recreation, for fun or pleasure.

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recreational
  1. adj. of or relating to recreation; "a recreational area with a pool and ball fields"

  2. engaged in as a pastime; "an amateur painter"; "gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals"; "recreational golfers"; "reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating"; "unpaid extras in the documentary" [syn: amateur, unpaid]

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Usage examples of "recreational".

Our dinner guests were Jeffry and Robin Peters, a graduate student and recreational musher who had befriended us early that fall.

He stresses that whereas LSD can be used for recreational and aesthetic purposes, it can have other and more profound effects, one of which is the accurate recollection of perinatal experiences.

She moved to strip protection for the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreational Area near San Diego, as well as hundreds of thousands of acres in the Southwest that are home to the arroyo toad, the fairy shrimp, the endangered Quino checkerspot butterfly, and dozens of rare desert plants.

He got into cocaine as a recreational drug in the early seventies, but it had the same effect on Shastri as on Freud.

Navy Commission, one group, the Library Department, supplied the enlisted men of the navy stations, as far as possible, with books, another with lectures, another with music, vocal and instrumental, another with theatrical entertainments, including moving-pictures, and another subcommission directed the recreational sport.

She moved to strip protection for the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreational Area near San Diego, as well as hundreds of thousands of acres in the Southwest that are home to the arroyo toad, the fairy shrimp, the endangered Quino checkerspot butterfly, and dozens of rare desert plants.

The increased sunlight made the plant the locals called madweed grow very well indeedand madweed was much in demand as a recreational drug in interstellar trade.

Look at products offered to this market-all kinds of exercise equipment, travel packages, recreational programs, fashions.

Beyond the surf, all manner of recreational watercraft hummed silently as their owners raced them in intricate patterns.

It also limited the sharks taken by recreational anglers to one per day.

Recreational boaters on the Potrum River who happened to be looking in the right direction at the critical moment were later able to report that they had definitely seen a large, glittering device erupt from the eighty-third floor of the Cheimer building, pause to hover in midair while raining fragments of shattered lucinite on the street below, and then ascend into the heavens.

Hastings as the type for a taste of a little recreational Zoner, but his place was clean.

Around them were stacks and cannisters and accordion-folded blisterpacks, heaps of bottles and vials, hermetic cartons, tubes, rolls, and bags of drugs and other recreational substances.

A city in itself, the circumferential ring housed the more desirable living quarters, Command Central, Life-Support Control, Gravity Management, Earth Communications General, recreational facilities, assembly halls, dining rooms and even a miniature park with its tiled swimming pool and equi-solar radiation.

Now, as Stephen Lindholm, working for Claire and Biotique, he had to abandon climatology with a longing glance at the satellite photos and their suggestively swirling new cloud systems, and merely tell the others about the whirlwind, and talk about weather in a recreational way in the lab or over dinner while his main effort returned to their little ecosystem and its plants, and how to help them along.