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playground English

Meaning playground meaning

What does playground mean?
Definitions in simple English

playground

A playground is a place where people go to play. The playground had swings and slides for children. He acted as if the whole beach was his own private playground.

playground

(= resort area) an area where many people go for recreation yard consisting of an outdoor area for children's play

Synonyms playground synonyms

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Topics playground topics

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Examples playground examples

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Simple sentences

I like to go to the park and watch the children in the playground enjoying themselves.
Tom, Mary and John were playing tag on the playground.
When I look out of my window, I can see a park with a children's playground.
There are two girls in the playground.
I'm sick and tired of kids who think they're tough by bullying other kids around in the playground, and who then act all innocent when they're with their parents.
Tom spent a very enjoyable hour watching his grandson playing on the equipment at the shopping mall playground.
Bus ticket, handbag, and children's playground are examples of compound nouns.
Tom fainted on the school playground.
The playground was filled with giggling kindergartners.

Movie subtitles

The ruins of Sendlingen castle, once so proud,. now a playground for the children of the poor.
It's got something to do with marriage, a wedding? - No! - Is there a playground in the house?
I think a big boy like me should have his own playground.
All you need is a baseball diamond and a football field, a playground and eight other guys, and you're all set.
That used to be our playground.
Now we can finally tear down our old school. and that can become our playground. It's all so wonderful.
Having the whole outdoors for a playground.
Our court is not to become a playground for wastrels.
This party is at Coney Island, the playground of the rich.
It would make a great playground if you filled it in.
Children's playground, a reform school, 12 showgirls playing softball!
I drove out to the playground alone. and I went out on the pier when it was dark and no one could see me. and I dropped the medal by the pilings in the water there.
Why aren't you at home where you belong or in a playground?
Go on home or some place where there's a playground before I flatten you.
But the building of an isolated playground to shield my boys from crime.. isnotrootingout the crimeitself.
Playground of the millionaires.
Yeah. Is this Vermont, New England's winter playground?
This is supposed to be America's snow playground.
Earlier, I saw something unusual in the school playground: a donkey.
I drove out to the playground alone and I went out on the pier when it was dark and no one could see me and I dropped the medal by the pilings in the water there.
I thought I'd show you the playground of the rich, the graveyard of wealth.
This place isn't a playground!
In Paris, the courtyard of the Gonzague town house has become a playground for speculators.
It's private property, not a public playground.
What you need is a weekend in Las Vegas, the playground of the world.
We are not going into the playground until everybody has quieted down.
Come and see his playground.
It's the playground of high society.
They're making a playground out of it.
The years on the playground Have passed so quickly.
Policing a children's playground.
Not unless I can have my old job back, at the playground.
Playground? Work for peanuts and jellybeans?
I get up there on that playground.
So I found this job as a playground director. I work in a pretty park all day, and the kids think I'm a hero because I played pro ball.
He's playing in the playground.

News and current affairs

Iraq has now become God's playground, and America can hope to achieve a modicum of stability there only with the help of other regional powers.
Historically, the Korean Peninsula was the playground for this rivalry, but, with North and South Korea appearing to make peace with each other, South Korea is also staking a claim to regional influence.
If, for example, a local parents' organization wants to build a children's playground, should it ask its members to do the work on a voluntary basis, or should it launch a fundraising campaign so that an outside contractor can be employed?
Instead, it seems more like a child's playground: a strange mixture of inferiority and superiority complexes.
Today, when I stand in my ten-year-old son's playground or look at his friends at his birthday party, I find myriad different languages, faiths, and colors.
Clearly, there is a lot more to early-childhood care than setting out juice and cookies, supervising naps, and taking kids to the playground.
I first met her in a makeshift classroom situated in a sea of tents; later, I saw her again, playing with other children on a rough playground.
A settlement over Kashmir is the key to stability in Afghanistan, which would then no longer be a strategic playground for India and Pakistan.
Similarly, Latin America, once the playground of myriad juntas and golpes, is now largely anchored in political liberalism.
Often, they will - for example, if the parents lack the skills to build a good playground.

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