refreshment
recreation | activity that refreshes and recreates, activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation, time for rest and refreshment by the pool, days of joyous recreation with his friends |
diversion
recreation | an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates, scuba diving is provided as a diversion for tourists, for recreation he wrote poetry and solved crossword puzzles, drug abuse is often regarded as a form of recreation |
| leisure | freedom to choose a pastime or enjoyable activity, he lacked the leisure for golf |
ballpark
park | a facility in which ball games are played (especially baseball games), take me out to the ballpark |
Belmont Park
Belmont | a racetrack for thoroughbred racing in Elmont on Long Island, site of the Belmont Stakes |
bullpen
detention cell
detention centre | a large cell where prisoners (people awaiting trial or sentence or refugees or illegal immigrants) are confined together temporarily |
call center
call centre | a center equipped to handle a large volume of telephone calls (especially for taking orders or serving customers) |
center
centre | a building dedicated to a particular activity, they were raising money to build a new center for research |
center bit
centre bit | a bit with a sharp center point for guidance and two side cutters |
| leisure wear | informal clothing designed to be worn when you are relaxing |
oyster bed
oyster bank
oyster park | a workplace where oysters are bred and grown |
| park | a gear position that acts as a parking brake, the put the car in park and got out |
| park bench | a bench in a public park |
plaza mall center shopping mall
shopping center
shopping centre | mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers, usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area, a modern version of the traditional marketplace, a good plaza should have a movie house, they spent their weekends at the local malls |
recreational facility
recreation facility | a public facility for recreation |
recreation room
rec room | a room equipped for informal entertaining |
trailer camp
trailer park | a camp where space for house trailers can be rented, utilities are generally provided |
wind farm
wind park
wind energy facility | a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity |
dead center
dead centre | the position of a crank when it is in line with the connecting rod and not exerting torque |
center of curvature
centre of curvature | the center of the circle of curvature |
center
centre
nerve center
nerve centre | a cluster of nerve cells governing a specific bodily process, in most people the speech center is in the left hemisphere |
center centre center of attention
centre of attention | the object upon which interest and attention focuses, his stories made him the center of the party |
kernel
substance core
center
centre
essence
gist
heart heart and soul
inwardness marrow
meat
nub
pith
sum
nitty-gritty f a e a c | the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience, the gist of the prosecutor's argument, the heart and soul of the Republican Party, the nub of the story |
center spread
centre spread | the spread at the center of a magazine |
center
centre | the sweet central portion of a piece of candy that is enclosed in chocolate or some other covering |
| National Park Service | an agency of the Interior Department responsible for the national parks |
United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
Centre for International Crime Prevention | the United Nations office responsible for crime prevention and criminal justice and law reform |
amusement park
funfair
pleasure ground | a commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement |
| center centre | a place where some particular activity is concentrated, they received messages from several centers |
nerve center
nerve centre | a center that provides information and control, the nerve center of the diamond industry is in Amsterdam |
cemetery
graveyard
burial site
burial ground
burying ground
memorial park
necropolis | a tract of land used for burials |
center
centre
midpoint | a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure |
center of buoyancy
centre of buoyancy
center of immersion
centre of immersion | (physics) the center of mass of the immersed part of ship or other floating object |
center of gravity
centre of gravity | the point within something at which gravity can be considered to act, in uniform gravity it is equal to the center of mass |
center of flotation
centre of flotation | the center of gravity of a floating object |
center of mass
centre of mass | point representing the mean position of the matter in a body |
center centre middle
heart
eye | an area that is approximately central within some larger region, it is in the center of town, they ran forward into the heart of the struggle, they were in the eye of the storm |
center stage
centre stage | the central area on a theater stage |
city center
city centre
central city | the central part of a city |
storm center
storm centre | the central area or place of lowest barometric pressure within a storm |
| industrial park | a tract of land at a distance from city center that is designed for a cluster of businesses and factories |
| national park | a tract of land declared by the national government to be public property |
| Acadia National Park | a national park in Maine showing marine erosion and glaciation, includes seashore and also the highest point on the Atlantic coast |
| Arches National Park | a national park in Utah including mountains and the Colorado River gorge and huge rock formations caused by erosion |
| Badlands National Park | a national park in South Dakota having multicolored peaks and spires resulting from erosion, fossil sites |
| Big Bend National Park | a large national park in Texas featuring mountains and desert and canyons and wildlife |
| Biscayne National Park | a national park in Florida having underwater coral reefs and marine life |
| Bryce Canyon National Park | a national park in Utah having multicolored rock erosions |
| Canyonlands National Park | a national park in Utah having rock formations and ancient cliff dwellings, canyons of the Green River and the Colorado River |
| Capitol Reef National Park | a national park in Utah having colorful rock formations and desert plants and wildlife |