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wreckreation

wreckreation noun: recreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in areas where raptors nest, or simply hiking in areas that disturb existing flora, fauna and archaeological resources.

Noun

wreckreation (uncountable)

  1. Recreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in areas where raptors nest, or simply hiking in areas that disturb existing flora, fauna and archaeological resources.
    • Wreckreation in Our National Forests1973, David E. Gray, Donald A. Pelegrino, Reflections on the recreation and park movement: a book of readings
    • ...critiques of motorized wreckreation...2001, Wild Earth Association, Cenozoic Society, Wild earth, Volume 11, page 80

Origin of wreckreation

Blend of wreck + recreation.

Questions about wreckreation

What does wreckreation mean?
Wreckreation means recreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in areas where raptors nest, or simply hiking in areas that disturb existing flora, fauna and archaeological resources.
What part of speech is wreckreation?
Wreckreation is a noun.

Words near wreckreation in the dictionary

  1. wrecklings
  2. wreckmaster
  3. wreckmasters
  4. wreckovation
  5. wreckovations
  6. wreckreation
  7. wrecks
  8. wrecksite
  9. wrecksites
  10. wrecksome
  11. wrecky

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