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

Outside, on the picnic table, the Professor tries to recharge the dead batteries to the radio with seawater and a bamboo tube. —Mark Richard, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025

Grab breakfast or lunch at the Cliffhanger Cafe (where none of the soup or sandwiches costs more than $11.25), settle in at a picnic table and watch the action in the air. —Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2025

Lawsuit challenges California animal shelter’s program to return cats to the outdoors Has Bay Area man discovered the secret of keeping birds away from his picnic table? —Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2024

The inside bar is intimate and cozy while the outside area is casual and fun, with hot pink picnic tables. —Megan Stringer, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above