noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
recreation ground
recreation room
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
active
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Physical benefits may relate directly to the health relationship with active recreation .
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This has led to a marked growth in active recreation .
outdoor
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What features of the city plan make it a pleasant place for outdoor recreation ?
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There may not be a better bargain in Indiana than outdoor recreation .
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But for those who choose arduous outdoor recreations like climbing, water sports and ski-ing this is particularly so.
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It is a city more in tune with outdoor recreation than cultural institutions, but it rains there.
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We expect more outdoor recreation , exploring the local hills and fjords.
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There is a fantastic array of outdoor recreation destinations available right now.
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The ensuing conflict has been sharpened by the phenomenal growth of outdoor recreation during the last two decades.
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My conclusion is that the conditions for outdoor recreation are the best I have ever seen them.
physical
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She had to cover five areas: expedition, residential, physical recreation , service and skills.
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She also studied badminton as part of physical recreation .
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Thanks to its vigorous and far-seeing headmaster, it also found time for physical recreation , handiwork classes and art.
■ NOUN
activity
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Apart from damage caused by trampling and erosion, more widespread and long-lasting degradation can occur as a result of recreation activities .
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They see the outdoors as a recreation activity , not a job opportunity.
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Becker's household production approach provides an alternative model of consumer demand for sport and recreation activities .
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Table 8.2 shows an interesting relationship with Table 5.3, which shows the levels of participation in various sport and recreation activities .
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The main question to be answered is how to distinguish between active sport and more general leisure and recreation activities .
area
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Before the building of the street the local lime wood was famous as a recreation area .
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San Pablo, an 850-acre reservoir and recreation area , receives nearly 400, 000 visitors per year, most who fish.
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We must have White schools, White residential neighborhoods and recreation areas .
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The federal Bureau of Reclamation manages the recreation area and was working with the resorts on the problems, officials said.
center
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Over in a corner, at the entrance to the recreation center , is a small grove of banana and ficus trees.
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The recreation center is the first phase of the one-third-acre project.
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At age 10, she began tagging along when her brothers would head out to the neighborhood playgrounds and recreation centers .
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In 1989, the Golden Hill recreation center needed a new roof and repainting.
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The team is crammed into a small, windowless conference room at the University of Southern California student recreation center .
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Their forces shut dozens of schools, mosques and recreation centers in poor neighborhoods throughout the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
committee
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Permission has been requested by the Darlington council recreation committee to build a platform on to the railway museum at Hopetown Lane.
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The money was given by the council's recreation committee .
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And the recreation committee yesterday agreed to replace it with a new wooden one costing £9,500.
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It will meet again on 3 March to make recommendations which the recreation committee will consider on 15 March.
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Members of the recreation committee on Thursday will consider giving £9,500 to replace the hut in North Park, Darlington.
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In future he wants the recreation committee to have the chance to veto controversial exhibitions.
facility
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Britain even lagged behind the United States in the provision of industrial recreation facilities .
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But they also use many city services, from the Community Center to Tucson parks and recreation facilities .
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Most recreation facilities like swimming pools and sports halls are under their control.
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They have begun to offer their customers choices-of schools, of recreation facilities , even of police services.
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They can also help to make exercise opportunities available to their elderly clients by encouraging local recreation facilities to provide special classes.
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Street improvements and improvements in park and recreation facilities were widespread among the neighborhoods phased in by the second-year stage.
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Is social development any more than the provision of village halls and recreation facilities ?
ground
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Police are urging people playing bowls last tuesday at Kingsthorpe recreation ground to get in touch if they have any information.
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Another inmate apparently stabbed the Hispanic inmate on the recreation grounds at 12: 49 p. m. Monday.
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Club attack: Glue-sniffing vandals are being blamed for attacks on the bowling pavilion in Hartlepool's Grayfields recreation ground .
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Hiltons also gave the lower recreation ground to the parish in exchange for land elsewhere.
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The Sun Hill recreation ground is in need of similar treatment to that of Stratton Bates.
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It is the private playground of children, the recreation ground of adults, and home for wildlife.
room
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Sometimes this would be a church hall, sometimes a Territorial Army drill hall, occasionally even a London Transport recreation room .
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Naptime was from four to five, and then he watched the evening news on television in the recreation room .
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She was sitting at a table in the recreation room with her relatives round her.
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The recreation room was reminiscent of the dole office.
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Children and adults can enjoy the recreation room with snooker, table tennis and darts facilities as well as the croquet lawn outside.
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About mid-February there was a lull in the bombing, and the recreation room could be used.
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No chapel, no school, no recreation room , no pub, no social life of any kind really.
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Prisoners, unable to exercise outside in sub-zero temperatures, had been allowed longer in the recreation rooms .
■ VERB
use
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For conservation is part of the lifeblood of all of us who use the outdoors for recreation .
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There is considerable pressure to use these waters for recreation , and they receive much disturbance.
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One problem is that, apart from supplying timber, the commission's forests are used for recreation and conservation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Families use the space for recreation .
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The afternoons at the conference were left free for recreation .
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Vancouver is a city more in tune with outdoor recreation than cultural institutions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Hiltons also gave the lower recreation ground to the parish in exchange for land elsewhere.
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Increasingly, the use of land for recreation is a feature of the Pentland Hills.
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The Dallas Parks and Recreation Department operates a full-service recreation center 24 hours a day, for people who work odd shifts.
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The directors of finance, human resources and the parks and recreation departments would no longer need this approval.
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Then the Council needs to look at its pricing structure for recreation and other services.
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They see the outdoors as a recreation activity, not a job opportunity.
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Until now the area of freshwater recreation has been sadly neglected.