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

There’s no inside seating, but picnic tables are provided under a canopy of old trees next to the stand. —Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2026

In his second review in Chamblee, Portnoy went over to Baby Blue Pizza, a spot that serves pizza out of a trailer with outdoor picnic tables. —Irene Wright, USA Today, 26 May 2026

Skip the food menu and grab a seat at one of the many outdoor picnic tables for a predinner drink. —Nathanael Gassett, Bon Appetit Magazine, 26 May 2026

Once, a group of six people chose one of the few permanent picnic tables in the concert bowl area. —Judith Martin, Mercury News, 19 May 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