recreation

See also re-creation, récréation, and recréation

English

Etymology 1

From French récréation

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rĕ-krē-āʹshən, IPA: /ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /r\Ekr\i"eIS@n/
• (US) enPR: rĕ-krē-āʹshən, IPA: /ɻɛkɻiˈeɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /r\`Ekr\`i"eIS@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Wikipedia

Noun

recreation (plural recreations)

1. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.

Derived terms

• recreation center
• recreation facility
• recreation room
• R and R

Synonyms

• leisure

Translations

activity that diverts, amuses or stimulates

• Arabic: استجمام (ar) (istijmām) m
• Belarusian: адпачынак (be) (adpačýnak) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 娛樂 (cmn), 娱乐 (cmn) (yúlè), 遊藝 (cmn), 游艺 (cmn) (yóuyì)

• Czech: rekreace (cs) f
• Danish: rekreation (da)
• Dutch: recreatie (nl) f, ontspanning (nl) f
• Finnish: virkistys (fi), vapaa-ajan toiminta
• Flemish: recreaasje
• French: récréation (fr) f
• German: Erholung (de) f, Unterhaltung (de) f
• Hebrew: נופש (he) m, פנאי (he) m
• Hungarian: szabadidő (hu)
• Ido: distrakto (io)
• Indonesian: rekreasi (id)
• Italian: ricreazione (it) f
• Japanese: 娯楽 (ja) (ごらく, goraku)
• Korean: 오락 (ko) (orak) (娛樂 (ko))

• Latvian: atpūta
• Malay: rekreasi (ms)
• Maori: mahi a te rēhia (mi), mahi rēhia (mi)
• Norwegian: rekreasjon (no)
• Persian: تفریح (fa) (tafrih)
• Portuguese: recreação (pt) f
• Romanian: recreație (ro) f, recreare (ro) f
• Russian: отдых (ru) (ótdyx), развлечение (ru) (razvlečénije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: cleasachd (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рекреација (sh) f

  Roman: rekreacija (sh) f

• Slovak: rekreácia (sk) f
• Slovene: razvedrilo (sl) n
• Spanish: recreación (es) f
• Swedish: förströelse (sv)
• Tagalog: rekreasyón (tl)
• Ukrainian: відпочинок (uk) (vidpočýnok) m
• Vietnamese: sự tiêu khiển (vi)

Etymology 2

re- + creation

Alternative forms

• re-creation

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rē-krē-āʹshən, IPA: /ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /r\i:kr\i"eIS@n/
• (US) enPR: rē-krē-āʹshən, IPA: /ɻiːkɻiˈeɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /r\`i:kr\`i"eIS@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

recreation (plural recreations)

1. The process of recreating something.
2. The result of this process.