recreation room

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noun

(in a home or public building) a room for informal entertaining, as for dancing, games, cards, etc.

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Origin of recreation room

First recorded in 1850–55

Words nearby recreation room

recreational, recreationalist, recreational vehicle, recreation ground, recreationist, recreation room, recrement, recriminate, recrimination, rec room, recross

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How to use recreation room in a sentence

The lodge has six restaurants, a spa, a fitness center, indoor and outdoor swimming pools and hot tubs, and a recreation room with a four-lane bowling alley, not to mention ski-in, ski-out access to the resort.
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However, they were not masked during several that took place in a cell doorway and a prison recreation room, the report said.
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Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.
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As anybody who has seen his now famous rant on Parks and Recreation knows, Patton Oswalt can get a little obsessed.
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One day he and some of his roommates were cleaning their room and one of the guys threw the dustpan out into the hall.
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Marvin and I leave the poolside and go into his dining room.
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The resources were what you might expect: Dining room, a media center, a library, a TV room, a meeting room, a computer room.
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The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.
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His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills
When his lordship retired early, as was his custom, the other men adjourned once more to the billiard-room.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3)|Charles James Wills

British Dictionary definitions for recreation room

recreation room

noun US and Canadian

the full name for rec room

a room in a hotel, hospital, etc, for entertainment and social gatherings

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recreation room

Origin of recreation room

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British Dictionary definitions for recreation room