Recreation

Definitions

1. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
   countable, uncountable
2. The process of creating something again.
3. The result of this process.

Equivalents

Examples

“The ordinary recreations which we have⟳ in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]”

“Mercury contents did not affect⟳ recreation persay but definitely could if found in fish⟳ tissue at high levels.”

“Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]”

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