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🖼️ To make again 💭 To imagine again 🔋 To refresh 🏞️ To enjoy leisure
to recreate

to recreate

2 4.2
To do things for fun and rest
  • verb
  • /ˌriːkrɪˈeɪt/
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  • Let's put our heads together and recreate episodes of Gilligan's Island!
  • work and recreate
  • live, work, and recreate

And then instantly I want to recreate outfits.

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Examples

  • Got to have some time to recreate or I'd go crazy!

    Blog text (18)

  • And we're going to recreate them today because we want, we want to, you know, feel Christmas Eve.

  • But, at least theoretically, she had developed daily living skills that would enable her to live, work, and recreate in an inclusive adult community.

    Academic text (2012)

  • My husband and I love ethnic foods and recreating at home the dishes we have when eating out.

    Blog text (31)

  • National research documents the improved health, well-being, and longer life of seniors who regularly socialize, exercise, recreate, and embrace learning opportunities.

    Blog text (19)

  • I mean, I don't expect you to do this every day, obviously, but it doesn't hurt to recreate this and just try something new for a change just for fun.

    Wayne Goss

  • We successfully combined family camping vacations with volunteer fieldwork—learning while recreating.

    Academic text (2004)

  • On weekends, we often recreate by hiking in the nearby mountains.

  • Children love to recreate in the park, playing games with their friends.

  • After a long workweek, she enjoys recreating with her family by having a picnic.

Synonyms

to play
vsto recreate
∞ 1.0

Take part in a game or sport for fun

is broader, covering any leisure activity rather than just games or sports

Antonyms

work
∞ 1.0

Effort people use to do a job or task

How Energetic

to party
  • Informal
298 3.0
to play
∞ 1.0
to recreate
2 4.2
to relax
∞ 1.0
to rest
816 1.0

Surface Forms

recreate infinitive
recreated past
recreated past participle
recreating present participle
recreates third person singular

Morphology

recreate = create (semi-transparent) = re + create

The leisure sense 'engage in recreation' derives via the idea of 'recreating oneself' (making oneself new) and is a conventionalized extension rather than a literal 'create again'.

Etymology

Recreate is linked to recreation and comes from re- 'again' and create 'make', which led to the idea of 'making fresh' by rest or play. So to recreate is to do leisure activities that refresh and restore you.