recreation

noun
/ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/UK/ɹɛkɹiˈeɪʃən/US/ɹiːkɹiˈeɪʃən/UK

Etymology

From Middle English recreacion, from Middle French recreacion, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreātiō.

  1. derived from recreātiō
  2. derived from recreacion
  3. derived from recreacion
  4. inherited from recreacion

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. The process of creating something again.

  3. 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

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.

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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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