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

Order at the window (make sure to ask for extra T’s Bam-Bam Sauce), then dine at picnic tables outside; there’s a playground for the kids. —Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 15 May 2025

Most drive-up campsites will provide a picnic table and firepit and sell firewood on site. —Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 13 May 2025

Best Choice 2-in-1 Wooden Picnic Table and Garden Bench Get the best of both worlds with this two-in-one picnic table and garden bench. —Emily Weaver, People.com, 12 Apr. 2025

Each tent has a king bed and two bunk beds, plus extras like hammocks, chairs, picnic tables, a mini fridge and coffee maker, lamps, chargers, heating, and air conditioning. —Jim Dobson, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 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