Meanings
nounrec room (plural rec rooms)
plural rec rooms
- informalClipped compound of recreation room.
The new product was the Game Boy — a hand-held, battery-powered plastic slab that promised to set gamers loose, after all those decades of sweaty bondage, from the tyranny of rec rooms and pizza parlors and arcades.
2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine
Synonyms & antonyms
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APA
rec room. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rec%20room
MLA
“rec room.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rec%20room. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rec room,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rec%20room.
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