playground

play·ground  (plground)

n.

1. An outdoor area set aside for recreation and play, especially one containing equipment such as seesaws and swings.

2. A field or sphere of unrestricted pleasurable activity: "Foreign affairs had been T.R.'s personal playground during his Presidency" (John Dos Passos).

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playground [ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd]

n

1. an outdoor area for children's play, esp one having swings, slides, etc., or adjoining a school

2. a place or region particularly popular as a sports or holiday resort

3. a sphere of activity reading was his private playground

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	playground - an area where many people go for recreation resort area, vacation spot resort hotel, spa - a fashionable hotel usually in a resort area area, country - a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography); "it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country" holiday resort, resort, resort hotel - a hotel located in a resort area spa, watering hole, watering place - a health resort near a spring or at the seaside borscht belt, borscht circuit, borsht belt, borsht circuit - (informal) a resort area in the Catskill Mountains of New York that was patronized primarily by Jewish guests; "many comedians learned their trade playing the borscht circuit"
	2.	playground - yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play dandle board, seesaw, teeter, teeter-totter, teeterboard, teetertotter, tilting board - a plaything consisting of a board balanced on a fulcrum; the board is ridden up and down by children at either end playground slide, sliding board, slide - plaything consisting of a sloping chute down which children can slide swing - mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth curtilage, grounds, yard - the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard"

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playground

noun play park, play area, recreation ground, adventure playground (Brit.) a children's zoo with a playground

Translations

playground [ˈpleɪgraʊnd] N (in school) → patio m de recreo (fig) [of millionaires] → paraíso m, lugar m favorito

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playground [ˈpleɪgraʊnd] n

(for children) → cour f de récréation

(= popular holiday resort) → terrain m de jeu
St Tropez, playground of the rich and famous → Saint-Tropez, terrain de jeu des riches et célèbres

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playground [ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd] n (in school) → cortile m per la ricreazione; (in park) → parco m giochi inv

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playground [ˈpleɪˌgraʊnd] n (in school) → cortile m per la ricreazione; (in park) → parco m giochi inv

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