recreation

From Middle English recreacion, from Middle French recreacion, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreātiō.

• (UK) enPR: rĕ-krē-āʹshən, IPA^(key): /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/

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• (US) enPR: rĕ-krē-āʹshən, IPA^(key): /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

 

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recreation (countable and uncountable, plural recreations)

1. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:

     The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]

   • 1972, Peter Chan, Water quality and recreational value analysis on Lake Dubay:

     Mercury contents did not affect recreation persay but definitely could if found in fish tissue at high levels.

• leisure

• recreate

From Middle English recreacion; equivalent to re- +‎ creation.

• re-creation

• (UK) enPR: rē-krē-āʹshən, IPA^(key): /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (US) enPR: rē-krē-āʹshən, IPA^(key): /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

recreation (plural recreations)

1. The process of creating something again.
2. The result of this process.
   • 2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...‎^[1]:

     Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]

The hyphenated form re-creation avoids confusion with the more common other sense.

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