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

And in any iteration of Pretty Little Liars, whenever the girls are together sitting on those couches or sitting around a picnic table talking, that's gold. —Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 8 May 2024

Visitors without their own gear can reserve one of the ranch’s two canvas glamping tents, which have real mattresses, bedding, seating, and an outdoor picnic table and fire pit. —Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 7 May 2024

Wooden picnic tables are feet from the Dart, busy with locals who pack the place out. —Jo Rodgers, Vogue, 3 May 2024

In Grants Pass, that has meant tents, tarps and other belongings dot parks while public benches and picnic tables are often used for sleeping. —Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024

All but one of the roads, Soda Lake Road off Highway 58, are unpaved, and even Soda Lake Road becomes an unpaved, rutted road five miles south of the Goodwin Education Center, which features restrooms and picnic tables, along with books, gifts and exhibits. —Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024

There are three oceanfront parks with restrooms, showers, and picnic tables, and 40 beach access points. —Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 28 Feb. 2024

There’s a large shade awning with several picnic tables underneath, plus ponds with turtles and fish, including catfish, bluegill and bass. —Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024

Amenities: 38 modern campsites; picnic tables, grills, water and electric hookups. —Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above