petting zoo

American  

noun

• petting zoos
  plural

1. a zoo, or a special part of a larger zoo, where children may hold and stroke and sometimes feed small or young animals.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• petting zoos
  plural

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Example Sentences

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petting zoo

Also offered: a straw maze, pumpkin decorating, a petting zoo, giant rocking horses, slides and more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

For Ostrovsky, the man who had left his wife and two daughters to get food, everything seemed to be fine when they arrived a little after 5.30 p.m. and saw bubbles and a petting zoo.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 15, 2025

Their owner was transporting them from Lewis County to Montana, where she runs a 7-acre petting zoo.

From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2024

Her rehoming was not without controversy - a group of animal rights activists who had been planning their own rescue claimed she could become distressed and exploited as a "spectacle" at a "petting zoo".

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2023

I watched as she pushed him down the narrow sidewalk and over to the petting zoo, where she parked him beside a bench and had a seat.

From "Where Things Come Back" by John Corey Whaley

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