1 [U] the fact of people doing things for enjoyment, when they are not working:
the need to improve facilities for leisure and recreation * the increasing use of land for recreation
2 [C] (BrE) a particular activity that sb does when they are not working:
His recreations include golf, football and shooting.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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This entry for recreation is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is recreation a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, recreation is tagged as noun.
Does recreation appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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