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1An outdoor area provided for children to play in, especially at a school or public park.
‘I was playing football in the playground’
as modifier‘playground games’
‘She added that, since the last competition, a skate park, playgrounds and a disabled walkway had been constructed.’
‘The fat kid who wants to join the playground football game traditionally buys his admission with a ball.’
‘It brings together key people involved in providing holiday playschemes, or maintaining parks, school playgrounds or playing fields.’
‘She said many parents in the area could not afford to put their children in play schemes for the holidays and playgrounds in the area were limited.’
‘The man's licence conditions were not to go to schools, public parks, playgrounds, swimming pools or leisure centres.’
‘I remember not wanting to spend time there, due to the lack of a proper playground area to play in.’
‘Regarding the individual area development plan, does zoning provide for parks, playgrounds and shopping nearby?’
‘It is unfortunate that many zones in the study area and in Jordan as a whole, lack the presence of green areas, parks, and playgrounds for children.’
‘She runs over to the playground area then waits for Anny to give her a hand up the logs that surround the bark.’
‘If pupils wish to play with balls in the playground areas they must be tennis balls only.’
‘The firm located school playgrounds in an area accessible to everyone in the community.’
‘The species are found in gardens, parks, and school playgrounds across the UK, thus enabling everyone to take part in the survey wherever they live or work.’
‘He said the noise of fireworks had already begun and would continue through to December, with evidence of spent fireworks in school playgrounds and on public paths.’
‘Nowadays, schoolyards and community playgrounds and public parks are barren on a weekday afternoon.’
‘For the whole city of Chicago, the ratio was 507 people to each acre of public and private parks and playgrounds.’
‘We teach them while riding in safe areas away from traffic, such as school playgrounds, parks and open areas.’
‘Encourage the use of ground-level safe play areas, such as public parks and playgrounds.’
‘She reached the school playground area and was thankful it was deserted.’
‘They were ubiquitous in my little world: in the school playgrounds and the parks, for example.’
‘Is it skate parks and playgrounds that youth have reclaimed as theirs?’
play area, park, playing field, recreation ground, amusement park