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Home Dictionary Name: recreationRecreation grounds
Recreation grounds. The (English) Recreation Grounds Act, 1859 (22 & 23 Vict. c. 27), facilitates grants of land near populous places for use in the regulated recreation of adults and as playgrounds for children; and ss. 76 and 77 of the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 53), contain provisions for their regulation. See also OPEN SPACES....
Recreation
The act of recreating or the state of being recreated refreshment of the strength and spirits after toil amusement diversion sport pastime...
Recreative
Tending to recreate or refresh recreating giving new vigor or animation reinvigorating giving relief after labor or pain amusing diverting...
Open space
Open space, means it is only with reference to the country that the word 'open' carries the meaning 'free from wood building etc.' Accepting the several meanings of the word 'open' the existence of 7 or 8 scattered trees within the space sixty feet wide all round would not render the entire space any less an open space within the meaning of that expression in the proviso to rule 18(a) of the Madras Places of Public Resort Act II of 1888. It is equally clear that the existence of say one free at one corner of the space would not prevent the space being an open space, Nachimuthu v. Ramaswami Chettiar, 69 MLW 887: (1956) 2 MLJ 556 (DB).By the (English) Metropolitan Open Spaces Acts of 1877 and 1881, the (English) Metropolitan Board of Works (succeeded by the London County Council, under s. 40, sub-s. 8, of the (English) Local Government Act, 1888) had power to acquire and to hold of the use of the public any open spaces within the metropolis. These Acts were extended, with amendments, to ...
reconstruction
reconstruction 1 : a rebuilding of a nonfunctional patented article that amounts to creation of a new article and constitutes infringement of the patent [the complete replacement of the mechanism was a and not a repair] 2 : the practice or process of recreating an incident (as an accident) for the purpose of investigating the specific facts and circumstances surrounding it [heard testimony on the speed of the vehicle from an expert in accident ] ...
restrict
restrict 1 : to subject to bounds or limits [ the height of buildings] [ visitation rights] 2 : to place under restrictions as to use or distribution [ed the land to recreational use] ...
Camper
One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp especially who sleeps in a wilderness for recreation...
Divertisement
Diversion amusement recreation...
game room
a recreation room for noisy activities parties or childrens play etc or for table games...
lido
A recreational facility especially one including a swimming pool for water sports...
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