recreation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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 […]

2. 2
   noun

   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 […]

3. 3
   noun

   activity that refreshes and recreates

4. 4
   noun

   an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates

5. 5
   noun

   The process of creating something again.

Etymology

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