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 atmosphere at Shorty’s is summer camp mess tent with long, wooden picnic tables on concrete floors. —Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 18 Mar. 2025

Participants should meet at the picnic tables at the front entrance. —Post-Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2025

There aren’t many frills to setting—folding metal chairs and mismatched tables inside, picnic tables with blue umbrellas on the deck out back—but the lineup of spirits and barbecue is over the top. —Robert F. Moss, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2025

Next to a cluster of picnic tables, a woman was pulling complimentary espresso drinks from a coffee cart called Cherry Brew. —Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 10 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