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

Even the picnic tables are back. —Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025

Stories about death, as part of that arc of life, came up in other ways as Parkman talked at the picnic table. —Martha Ross, Mercury News, 23 Nov. 2025

Outside, guests will find picnic tables, forest seating, and a seasonal biergarten. —Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 21 Nov. 2025

Lamar McGlothurn, 8, was attending Camp Wildcraft in July when a branch from a decaying tree fell onto their picnic tables. —Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 17 Nov. 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