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

Horseneck Beach State Reservation Located just behind the dunes from the beach, this campground offers electric and nonelectric sites with picnic tables and fire pits. —Anna Laird Barto, Travel + Leisure, 13 May 2026

The outdoor picnic tables are usually filled during open hours, packed with surfers, cyclists and locals. —Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 13 May 2026

Start dining al fresco more and add a picnic table to your side yard. —Tessa Cooper, The Spruce, 10 May 2026

But the Original kept its old parking lot, which is just big enough for a drive-thru stand and picnic tables. —Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 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