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 page already shows their work, such as repainting Hoffa's handmade totem pole in its original colors, taking down walls, uncovering long hidden patios and even Hoffa's wooden picnic tables. —Eric Shawn, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2025

Find public access at High Falls County Park, a 46-acre recreation area complete with boat launches, campsites, playgrounds, picnic tables, mini golf, basketball and volleyball courts, and a fishing pier. —Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 1 Aug. 2025

The City Council in February approved the park master plan, which will include a play area for various age groups, benches, lawn areas, picnic tables and shade structures, as well as meandering paths and fitness equipment. —Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 July 2025

Lowdermilk Park is Naples’ best beachfront park, with sand volleyball courts, a children’s playground, picnic tables, benches, restrooms and showers, and beach access mats for disabled visitors. —Amy Bentley, Oc Register, 23 July 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