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

However, pit toilets, picnic tables, water and food storage boxes are provided. —Kate Bradshaw, Mercury News, 23 Mar. 2026

On Friday, Fernando Sarellana sat at a picnic table under the park shelter with an apple and bottle of water. —Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026

Ninety minutes before Arizona and Long Island tipped off a day of Madness at Viejas Arena, a group of guys tailgated at a picnic table adjacent to the San Diego State football practice field. —Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2026

At the park in Los Angeles, scores of people shared dinner at picnic tables covered with white tablecloths and a display of sprouts, fruit and flowers. —ABC News, 18 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