recreation
Example Sentences
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Households cut back on recreation, food, drinks and gasoline because of difficult driving conditions and lack of parking due to frozen snow.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026
China also recently issued a guideline advancing child-friendly development more broadly, calling for improvements in schooling, medical care, travel, sports, and recreation.
From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026
Her father considers this just a hobby, a weekend recreation that shouldn’t interfere with her taking over the store one day.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2026
Its fantastical sets feature a recreation of Kahlo’s canopy bed from which a tree with artery-like limbs stretches toward the sky.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
It was a ridiculous scene inside—an underwater recreation of the hovering garbage at Aberdeen Lake State Penitentiary.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Vocabulary lists containing recreation
One Crazy Summer
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Sports and Hobbies
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