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

Bayfront Marina was so flooded that the benches of picnic tables were only just above the rising waters. —Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025

Near a tree line, the nonprofit has placed picnic tables for when students and other guests come for a visit. —Charlotte Observer, 6 Oct. 2025

Go semi-casual at Hooked, with its chalkboard menu and blue picnic tables, or take in sunset views at Duryea’s, an airy seafood restaurant right on the water overlooking Fort Pond Bay. —Sarah Buder, AFAR Media, 2 Oct. 2025

The yurts also include a microwave, mini fridge, prep table, picnic table, outdoor grill and fire ring. —Lynn O'Rourke Hayes, Boston Herald, 28 Sep. 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