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

Keep reading to shop more multipurpose patio furniture at Amazon, including a garden bench that transforms into a picnic table. —Toni Sutton, PEOPLE, 21 Apr. 2026

This weekend’s chef, Lana Lagomarsini, met Quié at a picnic table outside. —Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026

The investment in Point Breeze led to new benches and bike racks as well as a pocket park with murals, picnic tables and planters. —Bill Seiders, CBS News, 16 Apr. 2026

This doesn't bode well for large or small-scale woodworking projects, from DIY birdhouses to picnic tables. —Maddie Topliff, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Apr. 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