Word Meanings - RECREATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RECREATION)

• Diversion
• Detour
• divergence
• deviation
• recreation
• amusement
• pastime
• sport
• enjoyment
• Game
• Sport
• frolic
• diversion
• play
• Pastime
• Recreation
• entertainment
• Play
• wantonness
• joke
• merriment
• gaiety
• fun
• game
• Vacation
• Holiday

Related words: (words related to RECREATION)

• FROLICKY
  Frolicsome. Richardson.
• PASTIME
  That which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably; sport; amusement; diversion.
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• RECREATION
  The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime.
• SPORTAL
  Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
• ENJOYMENT
  1. The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate. 2. That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. The hope of everlasting
• VACATION
  Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. "With lawyers in the vacation." Shak. The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational
• DETOUR
  A turning; a circuitous route; a deviation from a direct course; as, the detours of the Mississippi.
• SPORTFUL
  1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
• HOLIDAY
  A day fixed by law for suspension of business; a legal holiday. Note: In the United States legal holidays, so called, are determined by law, commonly by the statutes of the several States. The holidays most generally observed are: the 22d day of
• SPORTER
  One who sports; a sportsman. As this gentleman and I have been old fellow sporters, I have a frienship for him. Goldsmith.
• SPORTLING
  A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play. When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May. Philips.
• FROLICFUL
  Frolicsome.
• AMUSEMENT
  1. Deep thought; muse. Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood. 2. The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses;
• ENTERTAINMENT
  1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the
• SPORTULA
  A gift; a present; a prize; hence, an alms; a largess. To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theaters, to run for the sportula. South.
• FROLIC
  Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry. The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton. The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller. (more info) fr, Dan. fro, OS. fr, cf. Icel. fr swift; all
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• TRANSPORTABILITY
  The quality or state of being transportable.
• TRANSPORTED
  Conveyed from one place to another; figuratively, carried away with passion or pleasure; entranced. -- Trans*port"ed*ly, adv. -- Trans*port"ed*ness, n.
• DISPORTMENT
  Act of disporting; diversion; play. Dr. H. More.
• TRANSPORT
  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. Hakluyt. 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as
• TRANSPORTABLE
  1. Capable of being transported. 2. Incurring, or subject to, the punishment of transportation; as, a transportable offense.
• TRANSPORTER
  One who transports.
• TRANSPORTINGLY
  So as to transport.