schoolyard
noun
a playground or sports field near a school.
schoolyards
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pluralof schoolyard.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Luckily, playing football in Brooklyn schoolyards was free.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"The implications are far-reaching -- from designing healthier cities and schoolyards to guiding ecosystem restoration and rethinking green infrastructure."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 2026
Ossola said that in some ways, Californians who want to improve their children’s schoolyards are playing catchup even with community will and funding sources in place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2025
Back in the 1990s, videos bringing together the best from around the world – sample title: Lightning Strikes - would be passed around schoolyards until the tape wore thin.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024
The process of educating the others is slow, but this year in Philadelphia sixty public schoolyards were opened for public playgrounds, and the city appropriated five thousand dollars towards their maintenance.
From What eight million women want by Rheta Childe Dorr
