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 |