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

The family-friendly/dog-friendly tap room has picnic tables and board games, and is home to a variety of events, including yoga, trivia nights and community fundraisers. —Ben Crandell, Sun Sentinel, 16 July 2024

Pasta salad is a favorite summer staple that adorns many picnic tables and is featured at poolside parties the whole season long. —Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 15 July 2024

Moments before taking the Great Northern Stage as the Friday night headliner, Turnpike Troubadours frontman Evan Felker was sitting at a picnic table underneath a large pine tree backstage ruminating on nearly 20 years together as a band. —Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 15 July 2024

At Shawnee’s Mid-America Sports Complex — one of seven facilities in use during the Top Gun Invitational softball tournament — the first thing once notices isn’t the warm-up of fastballs whizzing around the diamond, nor the 90 degree Kansas heat or cold cups of beer sweating on picnic tables. —Kylie Volavongsa, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above