recreationaladj.

1656 E. Reyner Rules Govt. Tongue 226 We may use Recreational speeches sometimes, to instruct, reprove or comfort others, in a pleasant way.

1797 J. Stell Hastings Guide (ed. 2) 2 Innocent recreational delight, card assemblies, billiards, riding, walking, reading, fishing, and other modes of pastime, banish care from the mind.

1843 Times 25 Nov. 4/3 The rights of the poor of every sort and kind whatever in this country—secular, ecclesiastical, moral, physical, educational, recreational, and every other.

1882 W. S. Jevons Methods Soc. Reform 69 The educational and recreational value of admission to such establishments.

1890 Cent. Mag. June 176 The recreational section has been a most unequivocal Success, and has already proved a boon to East London.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 47 (advt.) If your home piano is one of the chief factors in recreational enjoyment.

1946 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 40 2 The Americans have a word for it: the ‘recreational’ use of land. This is primarily what National Parks are for.

1973 Times 2 Mar. 16/5 Proposals to create the first protected nature reserve..are being discussed by Deal town council with..recreational societies.

1976 Billings (Montana) Gaz. 20 June 1- f/1 We used to hear about recreational shopping—it was sort of a lark and a lot of fun—but I think now it is a pretty grim, serious business.

1996 Independent 28 Feb. ii. 22/1 The courses are designed to get the intermediates off the skill plateau encountered by most stiff British recreational skiers.

1958 D. P. Ausubel Drug Addiction vi. 98 Recreational users are found in all three categories.

1967 Jrnl. Health & Social Behavior 8 168 It is obvious that a very large number of people use recreational drugs, primarily marihuana and LSD.

1981 V. N. McIntyre Entropy Effect iv. 95 Amazing how many different supposedly intelligent species chose a downright poison, ethanol, as their recreational drug of choice.

1992 New Republic 23 Nov. 17/2 Khat, also known as miraa, is a green leaf that secretes heavy concentrations of an amphetamine similar to speed... During this century it has become widely used by Somalis as a recreational stimulant.

2001 N. Jones Rough Guide Trav. Health i. 81 Walnut Bach Flower Remedy will help you adapt to changing circumstances, while the crabapple variety helps clear your system of drugs (all sorts—allopathic, recreational, alcohol, etc).

1926 Amer. Math. Monthly 33 (advt.) This book [is] particularly well adapted to recreational mathematics for the high school student.

1973 Sci. Amer. Sept. 176/1 It would..be hard to imagine two problems in combinatorial point-set geometry more remote from foreseeable practical applications unless one thinks of recreational mathematics (with its two virtues: amusement and instruction) as a branch of applied mathematics.

2000 Sci. Amer. Jan. 81/1 Similar impossibility theorems can be found in another popular area of recreational mathematics: the construction of geometric figures.

1949 Nashua (New Hampsh.) Tel. 12 May 20/5 The motorcycle, whether used as a commercial or recreational vehicle, is a useful machine.

1964 Wright County (Clarion, Iowa) Monitor 2 July 9/3 Free! 44 page illustrated booklet on Ford vacation vehicles. Send coupon to Ford Recreational Vehicles.

2007 Irish News (Nexis) 21 Aug. 48 I parked up in an RV park (for recreational vehicles or motor homes).

1936 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 26 75 On the basis of acreage only the large wild land projects appear significant, while on the basis of the amount of money spent by the recreationalist the tourist or the resort uses would stand out as most important.

1977 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 125 257/1 The NCC [= Nature Conservancy Council] is trying to achieve a revolution in attitudes reconciling the needs of the recreationalists and the conservationists.

1993 Countryside Recreation Network News 3/3 The visitor/landowner relationship is inseparable and to be beneficial to both depends on the goodwill of both. The ‘new-age recreationalists’ cannot afford to ignore this fact.

1914 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 14 458 My wife and daughter visit freely in other homes in the neighborhood..and the result is beneficial, both educationally and recreationally.

1953 Rep. U.S. Court of Appeals, 8th Circuit (Nexis) 10 June The Swope Park pool would in comparison have to be given the rank recreationally of a deluxe or blue ribbon facility.

1975 Nature 18 Sept. 185/1 Extracts of the poppy plant have been used since the days of the Homeric epics medically and recreationally.

2005 Metro (Toronto ed.) 15 July 16/3 Often the same hackers who once wrote malicious software, or malware, recreationally but now hire out their skills to the highest bidder.