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

Inside, two picnic tables were stacked on top of each other, leaving little room to climb. —Quinn Clark, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025

If the weather’s mild, sit at the picnic tables or under the umbrellas. —Tamia Boyd, Charlotte Observer, 27 Oct. 2025

Limited picnic tables and shade are located at the center of the farm near the food trucks. —Sacbee.com, 25 Oct. 2025

Earlier this summer, the center section of the Rose Garden, which was covered with grass, was replaced with stone tiles and picnic tables with umbrellas. —Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 23 Oct. 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