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recreational

recreational adjective: for, or relating to, recreation.

Adjective

recreational (not comparable)

  1. For, or relating to, recreation.
    • This is perhaps what we call recreational reading and we may be doing something useful in supplying it, if not anything strictly educational or even librarious.1921, Pacific Northwest Library Association, Proceedings
    • The drone crashed into a tributary of the Nanticoke River, a U.S. Coast Guard official said. The crash site has been blocked to recreational boat traffic while the agency investigates, the Coast Guard official said.2012 June 11, Chris Lawrence, “Navy drone crashes in Maryland”, in CNN, archived from the original on 02 Nov 2022
    Synonyms:
    rec, recreative

recreational meaning in Bengali

recreational in Bengali

বিনোদনমূলক, বিনোদমূলক, আমোদপ্রমোদের

Examples of recreational in a sentence

  • Recreational users call it "special K," and the euphoric, hallucinatory experience it induces the "K-hole."
  • Actually, I don't know where my work life stops and my recreational life begins.
  • Recreational use is all hype and something that people are doing to seem cool."

All 40 example sentences with recreational

Synonyms of recreational

Origin of recreational

From recreation + -al.

Words formed from recreational

Phrases with recreational

Questions about recreational

What does recreational mean?
Recreational means for, or relating to, recreation.
What is recreational in Bengali?
Recreational in Bengali is বিনোদনমূলক, বিনোদমূলক, আমোদপ্রমোদের. See Recreational meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is recreational?
Recreational is an adjective.

Words near recreational in the dictionary

  1. recreation grounds
  2. recreation hall
  3. recreation halls
  4. recreation room
  5. recreation rooms
  6. recreational
  7. recreational diving
  8. recreational drug
  9. recreational drugs
  10. recreational mathematics
  11. recreational medicine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: recreational (page history and authors); recreational (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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