rec
/ɹɛk/
rec is the clipping of recreation.
rec is the clipping of recreation ground.
rec is the clipping of recommendation.
rec is the clipping of recreational.
Verb
rec (third-person singular simple present recs or rec's, present participle reccing or recing or rec'ing, simple past and past participle recced or reced or rec'd or rec'ed)
Meaning of recreation
Noun (1)
recreation (countable and uncountable, plural recreations)
- 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 […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
- Synonyms:
- leisure
Noun (2)
recreation (plural recreations)
- 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 […]2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...
Meaning of recreation ground
Noun
recreation ground (plural recreation grounds)
- A public park designed for recreation purposes
Synonyms of rec
Forms of rec
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | recs |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | recs |
| third-person singular present | rec's |
| present participle | reccing |
| present participle | recing |
| present participle | rec'ing |
| past participle | recced |
| past | recced |
| past participle | reced |
| past | reced |
| past participle | rec'd |
| past | rec'd |
| past participle | rec'ed |
| past | rec'ed |
Words formed from rec
Phrases with rec
Words that rhyme with rec
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Questions about rec
- What does rec mean?
- Rec means to recommend.
- What is rec the clipping of?
- Rec is the clipping of recreation.
- What part of speech is rec?
- Rec is a verb.
- How do you pronounce rec?
- Rec is pronounced /ɹɛk/.
- What is the past tense of rec?
- The past tense of rec is recced.
Words near rec in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: rec (page history and authors); recreation (page history and authors); recreation ground (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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