British Dictionary definitions for recreation ground

recreation ground

noun

an open space for public recreation, esp one in a town, with swings and slides, etc, for childrenOften (informal) shortened to: rec

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Examples from the Web for recreation ground

Historical Examples

After supper many of them drifted back to their recreation-ground, the saloon.
The Night Riders
Ridgwell Cullum
The fjelds furnish a recreation-ground for the Norwegian townsman.
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
A.F. Mockler-Ferryman
Good scholars are as easy to discover in the recreation-ground as in the classroom.
Jonathan and His Continent
Max O'Rell
In 1888 it was decided to allow the soldiers quartered at the adjacent barracks to use it as a recreation-ground.
Chelsea
G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
A number of huts were therefore built on what had hitherto been the recreation-ground.
Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916
Karl Spindler

recreation ground

Examples from the Web for recreation ground

Historical Examples

After supper many of them drifted back to their recreation-ground, the saloon.

The fjelds furnish a recreation-ground for the Norwegian townsman.

Good scholars are as easy to discover in the recreation-ground as in the classroom.

In 1888 it was decided to allow the soldiers quartered at the adjacent barracks to use it as a recreation-ground.

A number of huts were therefore built on what had hitherto been the recreation-ground.