recreation
nounEtymology
From Middle English recreacion, from Middle French recreacion, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreātiō.
- derived from recreātiō
- derived from recreacion
- derived from recreacion
- inherited from recreacion
Definitions
Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
- 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.
The process of creating something again.
The result of this process.
- Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]
The neighborhood
- neighborrecreate
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at recreation. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at recreation. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at recreation
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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