Crossword-Solution: RECREATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Recreation | n. | The act of recreating, or the state of being recreated; refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil; amusement; diversion; sport; pastime. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “RECREATION”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| refreshment of strength and spirits after work | 1 answer |
| Refreshment of mind or body | 1 answer |
| Hiking or biking | 1 answer |
| DIVERSION: 1914 | 1 answer |
| Holiday activity. | 2 answers |
| ABC, MIND AND BODY ULTIMATELY | 10 answers |
| Pastime | 13 answers |
| Disport | 19 answers |
| fun and games | 22 answers |
| slackening | 26 answers |
| letup | 29 answers |
| Sport. | 31 answers |
| pleasantry | 32 answers |
| Refreshment | 36 answers |
| Comedy __ | 38 answers |
| Breathing space? | 38 answers |
| cartoon | 38 answers |
| facetiousness | 40 answers |
| Breather | 41 answers |
| Travesty | 44 answers |
| Mockery | 45 answers |
| Diversion | 46 answers |
| Parody | 47 answers |
| Satire | 47 answers |
| Spoof | 49 answers |
| Adjournment | 52 answers |
| Farce | 53 answers |
| Burlesque | 55 answers |
| Time-out | 55 answers |
| good time | 56 answers |
| Entertainment | 57 answers |
| caricature | 59 answers |
| interlude | 59 answers |
| Time out | 60 answers |
| Assistance | 61 answers |
| BALL ___ | 62 answers |
| Liberation | 65 answers |
| AMUSEMENT ___ | 72 answers |
| Piece | 74 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with RECREATION (5)
Though on foot, he held the reins and whip, and occasionally aimed light cuts at the horse’s ear with the end of the lash, as a recreation.
Maybe he did all these things, but I would like to know who held the horses in the mean time; and who studied the books in the garret; and who frolicked in the law-courts for recreation.
Having amused myself till a late hour with my favourite recreation of Geometry, I had retired to rest with an unsolved problem in my mind.
But is war an art so easily acquired that a man may be a warrior who is also a husbandman, or shoemaker, or other artisan; although no one in the world would be a good dice or draught player who merely took up the game as a recreation, and had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this and nothing else? No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.
Having worked all summer, I feel like taking a little healthful recreation; I want to see the Adirondacks; I want to see Sallie; I want to see Sallie's brother--he's going to teach me to canoe--and (we come to my chief motive, which is mean) I want Master Jervie to arrive at Lock Willow and find me not there.
Quotes with RECREATION (3)
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.
The problems of today's youth were no longer a Sunday supplement, or a news broadcast, or anything so remote and intangible. They were suddenly become a dirty, shivering boy, who told us that in this world we had built for him with our sweat and our blood, he was not only tired of living, but so unscared of dying that he did it daily, sometimes for recreation.
They were a remarkable company, each one of them a unique person, yet characterized to some extent by his particular national type. And all were distinctively “scientists” of the period. Formerly this would have implied a rather uncritical leaning towards materialism, and an affectation of cynicism; but by now it was fashionable to profess an equally uncritical belief that all natural phenomena were manifestations of the cosmic mind. In both periods, when a man passed beyond …
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1961–2011).