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Discover LudwigThe word "recreations" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to activities that bring enjoyment, relaxation, and pleasure. For example: After a long week of work, she was looking forward to her weekend recreations.
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recreations
noun
Plural of recreation
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Trust properties are now used as venues for concerts and recreations of historical events.
Recreations of the experiment on YouTube show what happens next.
The firm's software can simulate real-world cars in almost every detail, and the circuits within the game are true-to-life recreations of racecourses such as Silverstone and Monza.
In a fascinating chapter on youth clubs ("holding pens for adolescents"), Mr Collins describes how boys' clubs flourished in the first half of the century on the view that boys needed separate recreations to develop manly qualities.
David Cameron and most of his Conservative Party are against it, mainly on the grounds cited by John Milton in his 17th-century polemic against press licensing: "If we think to regulate printing we…must regulate all recreations and pastimes".
In the play, recreations of well-known moments tumble out, including Mr Bush aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln cheering on his troops.
Cycling and swimming are also popular recreations.
Mathematical recreations have a universal appeal.
Furthermore, the enforced reading from pulpits of James's Book of Sports, dealing with recreations permissible on Sundays, in 1618, was an additional affront to those who espoused strict observance of the sabbath, making compromise more difficult.
After an initial period of Anglican conformity in which he went regularly to church, he gave up, slowly and grudgingly, his favourite recreations of dancing and bell ringing and sports on the village green and began to concentrate on his inner life.
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It was coming down very hard," said Sara Hensley, director of Austin's parks and recreation department.
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