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/rˌɛkriˈeɪʃənəl/ Listen

Recreational

adjective

Of or relating to recreation.

Engaged in as a pastime. Synonyms: amateur, unpaid. "Gained valuable experience in amateur theatricals" , "Recreational golfers" , "Reading matter that is both recreational and mentally stimulating" , "Unpaid extras in the documentary"

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"Recreational" Quotes from Famous Books

... to young men and women. In that year a national conference of employment managers was held at Rochester, New York. The discussion revealed a wide range of duties assigned to managers, including questions of wages, hours, sanitation, rest rooms, recreational facilities, and welfare work of every kind designed to make the conditions in mills and factories safer and more humane. Thus it was evident that hundreds of employers had abandoned the old idea that they were dealing merely with individual employees ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... interests coincide and it is only the boundaries of the several interests that are not coterminous. The Mifflin Center illustration given above is good in that it had the religious, educational and political interests centered at one physical spot. The social and recreational life of a large part of this local area also was centered here. In the other local groups mentioned there was a division of interest much more marked. A more practical definition, then, of a "community" would be "That aggregation of population which is bound together by a predominating proportion ...

— Church Cooperation in Community Life • Paul L. Vogt

Words linked to "Recreational" : recreation, nonprofessional