Etymology From Middle English recreacion, from Middle French recreacion, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreātiō.
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Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.
The ordinary recreations which we have in winter, and in most solitary times busy our minds with, are cards, tables and dice, shovelboard, chess-play, the philosopher's game, small trunks, shuttlecock […]1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 2, member 4:
Mercury contents did not affect recreation persay but definitely could if found in fish tissue at high levels.1972, Peter Chan, Water quality and recreational value analysis on Lake Dubay:
Etymology From Middle English recreacion; equivalent to re- + creation.
1
The process of creating something again.
2
The result of this process.
Such abundance must be laid out on superfluous recreations, buildings, ornaments, furniture, equipage, attendants, entertainments, visitations, braveries, and a world of need-nots […]2007, Baxter's Practical Works, Volume 1: A Sum of Practical Theology, and Cases ...: