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

These are the people who have helped create the notion of the new thesis with a shelf life less than that of whole milk left out on the picnic table on a hot day. —Jim Cramer, CNBC, 25 Nov. 2024

At the end of a survey, members lay out their specimens on a picnic table or tarp and try to identify what’s there. —Peter Breen, Chicago Tribune, 30 Oct. 2024

By Ashley Mateo October 30, 2024 7:46 AM EDT Most portable outdoor speakers are better suited to sit on a picnic table than go mountain biking or tubing down a river. —Ashley Mateo, TIME, 30 Oct. 2024

Photo : Rolls-Royce Motor Cars The walnut picnic tables are inlaid with a (fictional) map of Fort Knox in 22-carat gold. —Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above