recreationist
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From recreation + -ist.
Noun
[edit]recreationist (plural recreationists)
- One who takes part in recreation.
- 2007 January 9, Jane E. Brody, “Surviving the Cold, or Even the Not So Cold”, in New York Times[1]:
- Hypothermia, a condition in which the body’s core temperature drops below 95 degrees, is the No. 1 killer of outdoor recreationists.
- 2014, Andrew Gulliford, Outdoors in the Southwest: An Adventure Anthology, page 54:
- Recreationists use either the frontcountry or the backcountry—or both.
- One who takes part in a historical reenactment.
- Synonym: reenactor
- a Civil War recreationist