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

At the nature center, there are wooded walking trails, picnic tables, a small pond, and native plant gardens. —Erin Gifford, Southern Living, 19 Jan. 2026

She could be seen walking over to a wooden play structure, which had a small picnic table underneath. —Hannah Sacks, PEOPLE, 16 Jan. 2026

The grab-and-go bakery does not offer seating, but there are a few picnic tables in front of the store. —Austin American Statesman, 15 Jan. 2026

Each corner of the property, from the barbecue and picnic tables to the twin doghouses, is a visual representation of that middle-class dream that Man-su doesn’t want to wake up from. —Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 15 Jan. 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