recreation

See also: re-creation, récréation, and recréation

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French récréation, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreatio.

Pronunciation

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

Wikipedia

Noun

recreation ‎(countable and uncountable, plural recreations)

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

Synonyms

• leisure

Derived terms

Derived terms

R and R recreation center

recreation facility recreation room

Related terms

• recreate

Translations

activity that diverts, amuses or stimulates

• Arabic: اِسْتِجْمَام m ‎(istijmām)
• Belarusian: адпачынак m ‎(adpačýnak)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: rekreace f
• Danish: rekreation
• 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
• Greek: ψυχαγωγία (el) f ‎(psychagogía), αναψυχή (el) f ‎(anapsychí)
• Hebrew: נופש m, פנאי m
• Hungarian: szabadidő (hu)
• Ido: distrakto (io)
• Indonesian: rekreasi (id)
• Italian: ricreazione f
• Japanese: 娯楽 (ja) ‎(ごらく, goraku)
• Korean: 오락 (ko) ‎(orak) (娛樂 (ko))

• Latvian: atpūta
• Malay: rekreasi
• Maori: mahi a te rēhia, mahi rēhia
• Norwegian: rekreasjon
• Persian: تفریح (fa) ‎(tafrih)
• Portuguese: recreação (pt) f
• Romanian: recreație (ro) f, recreare (ro) f
• Russian: о́тдых (ru) ‎(ótdyx), развлече́ние (ru) n ‎(razvlečénije)
• Scottish Gaelic: cleasachd f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: рекреација f

  Roman: rekreacija (sh) f

• Slovak: rekreácia f
• Slovene: razvedrilo n
• Spanish: recreación f
• Swedish: förströelse (sv)
• Tagalog: rekreasyón, mulinsigla
• Turkish: dinlence (tr), rekreasyon (tr)
• Ukrainian: відпочинок m ‎(vidpočýnok)
• Vietnamese: sự tiêu khiển (vi)

Etymology 2

re- +‎ creation

Alternative forms

• re-creation

Pronunciation

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

Noun

recreation ‎(plural recreations)

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

Usage notes

Hyphenated form re-creation avoids confusion with more common other sense.

Related terms

• recreate

Translations

The process of recreating something

• French: recréation (fr) f
• Greek: αναδημιουργία (el) f ‎(anadimiourgía)

• Japanese: 再創造 (さいそうぞう, saisōzō)