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

Amenities include picnic tables, shade shelters and vault toilets at the campground. — Jamie Siebrase, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2026

Every lunch, Becerra and half a dozen friends would around a picnic table, huddled over a deck of cards. — Ben Paviour august 17, Sacbee.com, 17 Aug. 2026

The original location on the bay includes seating at picnic tables on the pier overlooking Crab Island. — Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2026

Amid the gardens outside, picnic tables fill with attendees of a weeklong writing retreat. — Olivia Fletcher, Christian Science Monitor, 11 Aug. 2026

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