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

Each site is equipped with a picnic table, grill, and fire ring, but use of the fire ring is only permitted when fire danger is low. —Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 16 June 2025

Each site has a picnic table, fire pit, and barbecue grill. —Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2025

Campsites lie in a small valley and include a picnic table, food storage box, pit toilet and nothing else. —Paul Bersebach, Oc Register, 4 June 2025

Tye Donnelly, 54, surveys the scene from a nearby picnic table, an electric guitar on his lap. —Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 2 June 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