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 south phase of the project includes accessible pathways, new landscaping, pedestrian lighting, picnic tables, benches, shade structures and a new park entrance from the roundabout at the west end of H Street. —Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026

Hang or place the trap at least 20 feet from porches, picnic tables, or playgrounds. —Mary Marlowe Leverette, The Spruce, 7 Mar. 2026

The design does introduce 8,500 square feet of additional landscaping, including 19 trees and some new picnic tables and benches, so the overall footprint will be somewhat larger than 19,500 square feet. —Kim Velsey, Curbed, 4 Mar. 2026

With a broad expanse of shallow, placid water, plus playgrounds and picnic tables, Rockport Beach makes an ideal destination for families with kids. —Pam Leblanc, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 Mar. 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