What does PLAYGROUND mean?

Definitions for PLAYGROUND
ˈpleɪˌgraʊndplay·ground

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. resort area, playground, vacation spotnoun

    an area where many people go for recreation

  2. playgroundnoun

    yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play

Wiktionary

  1. playgroundnoun

    A large open space to play on, usually for children.

  2. playgroundnoun

    A yard or other open-air space on a school campus where the children can play, especially during breaks

  3. playgroundnoun

    Small area with dedicated play equipment, usually for children

    The city park playgrounds offer various slides, tubes and swings.

  4. playgroundnoun

    Any physical or metaphysical space in which a person or organization has free rein to do as they please.

    The exclusive tropical island was a millionaire's playground.

  5. Etymology: to play + ground

Wikipedia

  1. Playground

    A playground, playpark, or play area is a place designed to provide an environment for children that facilitates play, typically outdoors. While a playground is usually designed for children, some are designed for other age groups, or people with disabilities. A playground might exclude children below (or above) a certain age. Modern playgrounds often have recreational equipment such as the seesaw, merry-go-round, swingset, slide, jungle gym, chin-up bars, sandbox, spring rider, trapeze rings, playhouses, and mazes, many of which help children develop physical coordination, strength, and flexibility, as well as providing recreation and enjoyment and supporting social and emotional development. Common in modern playgrounds are play structures that link many different pieces of equipment. Playgrounds often also have facilities for playing informal games of adult sports, such as a baseball diamond, a skating arena, a basketball court, or a tether ball. Public playground equipment installed in the play areas of parks, schools, childcare facilities, institutions, multiple family dwellings, restaurants, resorts, and recreational developments, and other areas of public use. A type of playground called a playscape is designed to provide a safe environment for play in a natural setting.

ChatGPT

  1. playground

    A playground is an outdoor or indoor area designed and equipped for children to play, typically featuring structures and equipment such as slides, swings, merry-go-rounds, climbing frames, and sandboxes. These areas are commonly established in parks, schools, and other public places for recreational activity and physical exercise.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Playgroundnoun

    a piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school

Wikidata

  1. Playground

    A playground, playpark, or play area is a place with a specific design for children to be able to play there. It may be indoors but is typically outdoors. Modern playgrounds often have recreational equipment such as the seesaw, merry-go-round, swingset, slide, jungle gym, chin-up bars, sandbox, spring rider, monkey bars, overhead ladder, trapeze rings, playhouses, and mazes, many of which help children develop physical coordination, strength, and flexibility, as well as providing recreation and enjoyment. Common in modern playgrounds are play structures that link many different pieces of equipment. Playgrounds often also have facilities for playing informal games of adult sports, such as a baseball diamond, a skating arena, a basketball court, or a tether ball. Public playground equipment refers to equipment intended for use in the play areas of parks, schools, child care facilities, institutions, multiple family dwellings, restaurants, resorts, and recreational developments, and other areas of public use. A type of playground called a playscape is designed to provide a safe environment for play in a natural setting.

Editors Contribution

  1. playground

    A type of defined space created and designed in various colors, materials, play equipment, outdoor furniture, shapes, sizes and styles for children to interact and play together appropriate and proportionate to the environment and location.

    Playgrounds are a vital part of human life for children, their social interactions, play , health and well-being.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 22, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of PLAYGROUND in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of PLAYGROUND in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of PLAYGROUND in a Sentence

  1. Eric Hoffer:

    The Paleolithic hunters who painted the unsurpassed animal murals on the ceiling of the cave at Altamira had only rudimentary tools. Art is older than production for use, and play older than work. Man was shaped less by what he had to do than by what he did in playful moments. It is the child in man that is the source of his uniqueness and creativeness, and the playground is the optimal milieu for the unfolding of his capacities.

  2. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu:

    He himself killed, his army killed children in the playground. They killed our citizens and an American citizen in international waters. This is terrorism. Nobody can argue about Israeli aggression in Jerusalem in the al-Aqsa mosque, these provocations create frustration in the Muslim world and are becoming one of the reasons why these radical trends are emerging.

  3. Benoit Bruneau:

    This is an apex predator living on isolated islands, and it's absolutely gigantic. It's just an awesome animal, reptiles are kind of like a playground for evolution. There is so much diversity in size and form and behavior and their physiology.

  4. Kim Chang-hwan:

    I remember picking up fliers praising Kim Il Sung from the playground and mountain near my home when I was in elementary school, and we were told to drop them at a police box and get pencils as a reward, it was sort of scary as we were taught that those things were very bad, but when I saw them again during my military service, I would just laugh it off.

  5. Mat Staver:

    She said she played in the devil's playground for a long time, and her life has been radically changed since then.

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