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# recreational

«recreational» in Mova's school dictionary: **Done for fun, relaxing and enjoyment in your free time…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (recreational)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Done for fun, relaxing and enjoyment in your free time, not for work: recreational sport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#m1)

2) Used for fun and play: a recreational area, a recreational vehicle (RV). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#m2)

3) (of drugs) Taken for pleasure, not as medicine — still often illegal and harmful. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life recreational activities are hobbies and games; parks and leisure centres are recreational areas. In safety and health lessons «recreational drugs» is a term to understand as a warning. Formal word; casual: «for fun».

### examples

- Swimming is my favourite recreational activity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#x1)
- The town built a new recreational ground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#x2)
- They travelled in a recreational vehicle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#x3)
- Recreational fishing is allowed on the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#x4)
- Many adults play recreational football at weekends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#x5)
- Recreational drugs can seriously harm your health. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/#x6)

### note

Noun: recreation (UK school: «rec», US: «rec room», «recess» is a different word). Not about «re-creating» something, though the word comes from «create anew».

### In the corpora

- ["Recreational drugs" means illegal drugs taken for pleasure.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/30-drinking-and-drugs/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «recreational» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/recreational/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.