playland

American  

[pley-land] / ˈpleɪˌlænd /

noun

1. an area used for recreation or amusement; playground or amusement park.

2. a town or city that relies heavily on its tourist trade to bolster its economy.

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Etymology

Origin of playland

First recorded in 1945–50; play + -land

Example Sentences

This is before it was decided to craft the ride in the look and tone of artist Mary Blair, and Davis’ small concepts possess a more refined look — a cartoon London, for instance, rather than a children’s playland.

From Los Angeles Times

However, imagine if they were to step outside the curtain and into Vancouver’s Playland Amusement Park, where the picture was made, for the very same kiss.

From Los Angeles Times

“As the curtains parted, we were engulfed by a curved, three-paneled screen that seemed to stretch as wide and as high as the limits of human vision while at the same time we were inundated by sounds that came at us from all directions ... as the camera placed us, with you-are-there immediacy, on the front seat of a roller coaster as it dips and glides, swerves and hurtles at breakneck speed over the tortuous course of a ride at the Rockaway Playland amusement park in New York.”

From Los Angeles Times

An internet archive shows in 2018 the "about" section of the site read, "America's Last Line of Defense is a whimsical playland of conservative satire" and "Everything on this website is fiction."

From Salon

As a drifter-janitor who fights possessed robotic animals at a Chuck E. Cheese-style playland in this action-horror mash-up, Cage doesn’t say a word.

From New York Times