picnic table

noun

plural picnic tables

: a table that is designed for picnicking and that typically has adjacent or attached benches for sitting

Parking lots are small, and just a few parks have … water, rest rooms, or picnic tables.

—Sunset

Their RV and tent sites feature a picnic table, fire pit, electricity, cable, and water and sewer hookups, varying with sites.

—Moira McCarthy

… the only stop was at a rest area which contained no … beverage machines or vending machines—just one picnic table offering no shade and a couple of overflowing garbage cans.

—Melissa A. Pindroh

It is midweek and Marino sits in the twilight at an outdoor picnic table next to the laundry room at the Dolphins' practice facility.

—Rick Telander

We sat outside, hunched over a picnic table in the small bricked-in patio behind her house.

—Tim Findley

Examples of picnic table in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The cozy interior is swaddled in leather and burl wood, and rear-seat passengers even got elegant picnic tables that folded down from the front seatbacks. —Raphael Orlove, Robb Report, 27 Feb. 2025

Outside, there will be some rocking chairs on the front porch, picnic tables, a dog park and a parking lot that can fit between 15 and 20 cars. —Alexis Clinton, Axios, 12 Feb. 2025

The hall is entirely outside, with food stalls located in shipping containers surrounding a seating area in the middle with fire pits, picnic tables, green space and lounge chairs. —Alexandra Maloney, Charlotte Observer, 10 Feb. 2025

The $433,000 contract was for removing old infrastructure, improving the parking area, landscaping, drainage grading, installing a new sidewalk and retaining walls, and adding benches, picnic tables, bike racks and drinking fountains, Clarkowski said. —Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 9 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for picnic table

• damnable
• disable
• enable
• roundtable
• timetable
• turntable
• unable
• unstable
• able
• chaebol
• fable
• label