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

The new location, formerly the kitchen for delivery company ClusterTruck, is completely outside and features about a half-dozen picnic tables on the side of the building. —Kansas City Star, 29 Apr. 2026

However, pit toilets, picnic tables, water and food storage boxes are provided. —Tribune News Service, Baltimore Sun, 29 Apr. 2026

Whether its gathering in a church basement on a Friday night or at a picnic table after a spring morning of slaying crappie, a perfect fish fry brings people together. —Jack Hennessy, Outdoor Life, 29 Apr. 2026

Order at the window (make sure to ask for extra T’s Bam-Bam Sauce), then dine at picnic tables outside; there’s a playground for the kids. —Skye Sherman, Southern Living, 26 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1866, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for picnic table

• damnable
• disable
• enable
• roundtable
• timetable
• turntable
• unable
• unstable
• able
• chaebol
• fable
• label