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 hawk was found, unable to fly, on a picnic table at a San Jose park in late July, suffering from an open head wound and tearing and swelling in her right eye — impacting her vision, which is integral to hunting for food, according to a press release from PHS/SPCA. —Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2025

Cox’s restaurant sits alongside the river’s meandering path through Pagosa Springs, with multiple dog-friendly picnic tables right next to the water and an outdoor patio a few feet up the hillside. —Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2025

The project will also have a community park with picnic tables, a playground, large turf open space area and a community garden. —Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025

Loyalti was shot while sitting with friends at a picnic table on July 13, 2021. —Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 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