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

Think middle-class families gathered around picnic tables, pitchers of lemonade sweating in the heat, baskets brimming with soft buns, and squeeze bottles of ketchup and mustard. — Ashley Rose Young, Bon Appetit Magazine, 18 June 2026

Nearby are picnic tables and a sprawling fruit and vegetable garden and cast-iron barbecue pits for grilling — Barack Obama would like you to use those in the summer. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 14 June 2026

Kids line up here for scoops and floats, while parents enjoy the shade at outdoor picnic tables or on the roof overlooking the water. — Katherine Lawless, Travel + Leisure, 13 June 2026

If backyard barbecues are in your future, pick up this portable picnic table and bench set that creates extra seating for guests and can be easily packed up and put away until your next party. — Shea Simmons, Southern Living, 12 June 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
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