Home › Words › P › playplaceplayplaceplayplace means A place for recreation and play.EtymologyFrom play + place.nounA place for recreation and play.e.g.“Lanny sat for a while looking out over the peaceful strait of water, which makes a playplace as well as a channel of commerce for the great metropolis.” — 1946 May, Upton Sinclair, “The Darkest Hour”, in A World to Win (Lanny Budd; 7), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →OCLC, book 5 (A Tide in the Affairs of Men), section IV, page 358:A place for recreation and play.; A recreational space for children, often used in the context of indoor playgrounds or jungle gyms with tube mazes.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).