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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Meaning of "playground" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PLAYGROUND

playground  [ˈpleɪˌɡraʊnd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PLAYGROUND

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Playground is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PLAYGROUND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

playground

Playground

A playground, playpark, or play area is a place with a specific design to allow children to play there. It may be indoors but is typically outdoors. While a playground is usually designed for children, some playgrounds are designed for other age groups. Berlin's Preußenpark for example is designed for senior adults age 70 or higher. It is possible for a playground to exclude children if they are below the required age for entrance. Modern playgrounds often have recreational equipment such as the seesaw, merry-go-round, swingset, slide, jungle gym, chin-up bars, sandbox, spring rider, monkey bars, overhead ladder, trapeze rings, playhouses, and mazes, many of which help children develop physical coordination, strength, and flexibility, as well as providing recreation and enjoyment. Common in modern playgrounds are play structures that link many different pieces of equipment. Playgrounds often also have facilities for playing informal games of adult sports, such as a baseball diamond, a skating arena, a basketball court, or a tether ball.

Definition of playground in the English dictionary

The first definition of playground in the dictionary is an outdoor area for children's play, esp one having swings, slides, etc, or adjoining a school. Other definition of playground is a place or region particularly popular as a sports or holiday resort. Playground is also a sphere of activity.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PLAYGROUND


above-ground
əˌbʌvˈɡraʊnd
aground
əˈɡraʊnd
air-to-ground
ˈɛətəˌɡraʊnd
around
əˈraʊnd
background
ˈbækˌɡraʊnd
battleground
ˈbætəlɡraʊnd
belowground
bɪˈləʊˌɡraʊnd
campground
ˈkæmpɡraʊnd
fairground
ˈfɛəˌɡraʊnd
foreground
ˈfɔːˌɡraʊnd
ground
ɡraʊnd
ground-to-ground
ˌɡraʊndtəˈɡraʊnd
inground
ɪnˈɡraʊnd
overground
ˈəʊvəˌɡraʊnd
round
raʊnd
showground
ˈʃəʊˌɡraʊnd
stoneground
ˈstəʊnˌɡraʊnd
surround
səˈraʊnd
underground
ˈʌndəˌɡraʊnd
unground
ʌnˈɡraʊnd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PLAYGROUND

player piano
player-manager
playfellow
playfield
playful
playfully
playfulness
playgirl
playgoer
playgoing
playgroup
playhouse
playing
playing card
playing field
playleader
playless
playlet
playlist
playmaker

WORDS THAT END LIKE PLAYGROUND

above ground
all-around
all-round
all year round
all-year-round
bound
break new ground
fall to the ground
get around
get off the ground
go around
go round
in the round
into the ground
shop around
the high ground
the underground
thin on the ground
to the ground
workaround
year-round

Synonyms and antonyms of playground in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PLAYGROUND»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «playground» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of playground

Translation of «playground» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PLAYGROUND

Find out the translation of playground to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of playground from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «playground» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

操场
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

columpios
570 millions of speakers

English

playground
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खेल का मैदान
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَلْعَب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

площадка для игр
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pátio de recreio
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

খেলার মাঠ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cour de récréation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Taman permainan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Spielplatz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

遊び場
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

운동장
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Dolanan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sân chơi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விளையாட்டு மைதானத்தின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

खेळाच्या मैदानाचीही
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

oyun alanı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

parco giochi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

plac gier i zabaw
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дитячий майданчик
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

loc de joacă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παιδική χαρά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

speelgrond
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lekplats
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lekeplass
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of playground

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PLAYGROUND»

The term «playground» is very widely used and occupies the 9.710 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PLAYGROUND» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «playground» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «playground» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about playground

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10 QUOTES WITH «PLAYGROUND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word playground.
1
Uzo Aduba
When I was little, I didn't smile much. Don't get me wrong. I was a happy kid, but I couldn't stand the space, dead center, in between my teeth. Yeah, I could whistle through it, but so what? That didn't win me many points on the playground in Medfield, Massachusetts.
2
Sai Baba
Do not be misled by what you see around you, or be influenced by what you see. You live in a world which is a playground of illusion, full of false paths, false values and false ideals. But you are not part of that world.
3
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
As a child, the paddy field was my playground.
4
John Barrowman
I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.'
5
Peter Bart
It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
6
Tobin Bell
'Saw' is a particularly popular film with 14-30 year olds, so I'll be at a playground and meet six or 10 skateboarders who just wanna talk about 'Saw.'
7
Amy Bloom
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the edge of the playground, having broken a tooth in dodge ball, and lying under my covers with a flashlight.
8
Ed Bradley
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
9
Lakhdar Brahimi
To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.
10
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLAYGROUND»

Discover the use of playground in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to playground and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Playground
Loosely inspired by 50 Cent's own adolescence and written with his teenage son in mind, Playground received wide critical praise--and is now poised to become a perennial classic.
50 Cent, 2011
2
The Complete Playground Book
A guide to the design and creation of playgrounds looks at their history and purpose, visits playgrounds around the world, examines current research, and suggests playground activities
Arlene Brett, 1993
3
Playground
You have your own room. You have new friends. You have an uncle Hef who's always there for you. Welcome to the world of Playground, the true story of a young girl who grew up inside the Playboy Mansion.
Jennifer Saginor, 2009
4
Heaven Is a Playground: 4th Edition
This edition also includes Telander’s perspectives on the arrival of an NBA team in Brooklyn. Heaven Is a Playground is one of a kind—a funny, sad, ultimately inspiring book about Americans and the roots of the sport that they love.
Rick Telander, 2013
5
The Internet is a Playground: Irreverent Correspondences of ...
For Free," which has been described as one of the most passed-on viral e-mails of all time; and, most recently, the staggeringly popular "Missing Missy", which has appeared everywhere from The Guardian to Jezebel to Andrew Sullivan's The ...
David Thorne, 2011
6
Playground Day
Each page offers clues to a friendly preschool guessing game and captures the unique pleasures of a day spent at the playground.
Jennifer Merz, 2007
7
Playground
Peter Land has a sculptural interest in the human body which he exploits through the fluid medium of the moving image.
Peter Land, Sanne Kofod Olsen, Jacob Fabricius, 2005
8
Playground: Listening to Stories from Country and from ...
We use the bush as our school and as our playground, says one of the many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people whose voices combine in this anthology of true stories about childhood, compiled from a wide range of memoirs and oral ...
‎2011
9
Digital Labor: The Internet as Playground and Factory
Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and predict users' interests and habits. This unique collection of essays provides a wide-ranging account of the dark side of the Internet.
Trebor Scholz, 2013
10
Heard it in the Playground
This illustrated collection of amusing poems and songs celebrating primary school life won the Signal Poetry Award in 1990.
Allan Ahlberg, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PLAYGROUND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term playground is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Fitness expert shows adults how to use playground equipment as …
Fitness expert, John Rowley, is offering ideas to turn outdoor playground equipment into a great way for adults to meet their fitness needs. «KABC-TV, Jul 15»
2
Making fitness out of fun: How to workout at the playground with or …
It may not be obvious, but if you take a creative look at a regular kids playground you can see some amazing fitness equipment that is functional ... «CTV News, Jul 15»
3
New adventurous playground at AB Shaw Reserve
Hobsons Bay councillor Carl Marsich said the new playground represented a move away from traditional playground equipment to the creation ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
4
Pizza pumps up playground: About 300 turn out to raise funds for …
Right now we're hoping that today's fundraiser will put us to the $60,000 goal we set for building the playground," she said. The center serves ... «Sharonherald, Jul 15»
5
Pizza pumps up playground
David E. Dale | HeraldA slice of pizza from Scotto's Pizza, Hermitage, is served up at the second annual Pizza Palooza in St. Michael's Social ... «Sharonherald, Jul 15»
6
The UK is a playground for super-rich foreigners, attracting more …
The UK is attracting more of the world's super-rich than any other country in the world, with more than 100,000 of the world's wealthiest moving ... «City A.M., Jul 15»
7
Youngsters at risk after Fife playground is strewn with broken glass
Youngsters at risk after Fife playground is strewn with broken glass. By Claire Warrender, 27 July 2015 7.55am. Cllr Tom Adams with a discarded drinks tin ... «The Courier, Jul 15»
8
PHOTOS: Kids love new $100000 kindy playground
The nine-year-old was among the small crowd of families who gathered for the official opening of the $100,000 playground at the weekend. «Gladstone Observer, Jul 15»
9
Elmira Heights plans playground upgrades
ELMIRA HEIGHTS – Children who visit McCann's Park in Elmira Heights don't have any place to swing or slide right now, but that's going to ... «Elmira Star-Gazette, Jul 15»
10
Ormond-by-the-Sea couple create playground for lizards
“They're very territorial, so each one sticks to its own part of the playground,” she said. Sometimes birds eat them but the local cats have mostly ... «Daytona Beach News-Journal, Jul 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Playground [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/playground>. Apr 2024 ».
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