playground
IPA: pɫˈeɪgraʊnd
noun
- (outdoors) A large open space for children to play in, usually having dedicated play equipment (such as swings and slides).
- (figuratively) Any physical or metaphysical space in which a person or organization has free rein to do as they please.
Examples of "playground" in Sentences
- The children sullied the playground.
- The idle mind is the devils playground.
- The field is adjacent to the playground.
- Later, the kids return to the playground.
- He was whooping and hollering on the playground.
- It is the playground of the rich and the indolent.
- The primary feature of the park is the playground.
- I take little stock in playground name-calling ...
- The compound includes the playground for the students.
- The School has one of the biggest playground in Bhayandar.
- The playground is usually done from the tires that are recycled.
- The playground was developed by the nonprofit Boundless Playgrounds.
- One of the best materials which can be used to build a playground is rubber mulch.
- The accepted behavior of a playground is to be as loud and rambunctious as you want to have a good time.
- A playground is an essential part of any childhood, as it really is a place where a spirit can be refreshed as children smile, laugh and imagine.
- It stinks to high heaven that a butt-muffin playground bully such as Blankenship has the right to, in effect, murder people for the sake of profit.
- The joy of a playground is feeling the “land” under your feet as you run, jump and return to stable ground, as it truly is a ground that one plays on.
- Anyone who compares being stocked with nuclear weapons to being bullied on the playground is a moron, though I would love to play Dodgeball with Palin - may knock some sense into her!
- To get the playground on the roof of the school house recognized as the _public playground_ seemed a long step toward turning it into a general neighborhood evening resort, that should be always open, and so towards bringing school and people, and especially the school and the boy, together in a bond of mutual sympathy good for them both.
- When I think of the old Allen Street school, with its hard and ugly lines, where the gas had to be kept burning even on the brightest days, recitations suspended every half-hour, and the children made to practice calisthenics so that they should not catch cold while the windows were opened to let in fresh air; of the dark playground downstairs, with the rats keeping up such a racket that one could hardly hear himself speak at times; or of that other East Side playground where the boys werent allowed to speak above a whisper, so as not to disturb those studying overhead, I fancy that I can make out both the cause and the cure of the boys desperation.