schoolyard

[skool-yahrd]

noun

1. a playground or sports field near a school.

Word History and Origins

Origin of schoolyard¹

First recorded in 1865–70; school ¹ + yard ²

Example Sentences

District leaders, it alleged, “knowingly allowed” classrooms and schoolyards to become a “viciously hostile” environment.

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The tension comes from Odd Henderson, a schoolyard bully and tireless tormentor of Buddy, a character based on the young Capote.

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Curtis Sliwa, the Republican nominee, compared his opponents to “two kids in a schoolyard.”

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The researchers also collaborated with the nonprofit Green Schoolyards America, which found in its own 2024 study that California’s public K-12 schoolyards have a median tree cover of just 6.4%.

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A schoolyard pitcher in his hometown of Monte Escobedo, Contreras fell in with the Dodgers almost as soon as he migrated to the United States in 1970 to join a brother in Highland Park.

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