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recreation ground

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noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Forensic investigators are expected to remain at the recreation ground for the next few days.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2021

One, dated February 2008, shows him crouched in snow in the prison’s recreation ground, smiling at dusk.

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2016

Instead, to the approval of most Berliners, they turned it into a vast recreation ground, a semi-wilderness in the heart of the city.

From New York Times • May 12, 2016

A second picture posted by the same user showed the air ambulance had landed in White Hart Lane recreation ground.

From The Guardian • Dec. 11, 2015

Population—Moslems—Christians—Chaldeans—Nestorians—Jacobites—Arabs—Kurds—Jews—Yezidees— Recreations—Warfare of the slingers—Hammam Ali—The recreation ground of Mosul men and women.

From Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East by Hume-Griffith, A.

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