playgroup

American  

[pley-groop] / ˈpleɪˌgrup /

noun

1. a group of small children, especially preschoolers, organized for play or play activities and supervised by adult volunteers.

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playgroup British  

/ ˈpleɪˌɡruːp /

noun

1. a regular meeting of small children arranged by their parents or a welfare agency to give them an opportunity of supervised creative play See also preschool playschool

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Etymology

Origin of playgroup

First recorded in 1905–10; play + group

Example Sentences

Since then, the 21-month-old has "scoffed" sand "by the handful" and eaten playgroup rugs as well as furniture all over his home, including his own cot.

From BBC

Over the decades she founded several L.A. institutions including the cooperative daycare Echo Park Silverlake People’s Child Care Center, which was immortalized in the Emmy-winning short documentary “Power to the Playgroup,” and the Teen and Parent Child Care Program at the Los Angeles Technology Center.

From Los Angeles Times

At a playgroup hosted in a City Terrace backyard, humans — fosters, adopters and others — crowd into thin slices of shade along the garage to beat the afternoon heat, fondly watching dogs delight in chasing and being chased.

From Los Angeles Times

Over the decades she founded several L.A. institutions including the cooperative daycare Echo Park Silverlake People’s Child Care Center that was immortalized in the Emmy-winning short documentary “Power to the Playgroup” and the Teen and Parent Child Care Program at the Los Angeles Technology Center.

From Los Angeles Times

More and more children at Rebecca Stewart's east London playgroup are using asthma inhalers, she says.

From BBC

Related Words

• kindergarten
• nursery school