What's a park?

Question

What exactly is a park? The first thing that comes to mind is a playground.

Yosemite is also a park. I think a park is a public recreational area. Private park is an oxymoron. Your backyard is a recreational area, but it's not a park.

A park can be privately owned, but it has to be open to the public. An amusement park is usually privately owned, but open to the public.

Answer 1

1. an area of land, usually in a largely natural state, for the enjoyment of the public, having facilities for rest and recreation, often owned, set apart, and managed by a city, state, or nation.
2. an enclosed area or a stadium used for sports: a baseball park.
3. a considerable extent of land forming the grounds of a country house.
4. British. a tract of land reserved for wild animals; game preserve.
5. Western U.S. a broad valley in a mountainous region.
6. a space where vehicles, esp. automobiles, may be assembled or stationed.
7. amusement park.
8. theme park.
9. any area set aside for public recreation.
10. Military. a. the space occupied by the assembled guns, tanks, or vehicles of a military unit.
b. the assemblage so formed.
c. (formerly) the ammunition trains and reserve artillery of an army.

11. Automotive. a setting in an automatic transmission in which the transmission is in neutral and the brake is engaged.
–verb (used with object) 12. to place or leave (a vehicle) in a certain place for a period of time.
13. Informal. to put, leave, or settle: Park your coat on the chair. Park yourself over there for a moment.
14. to assemble (equipment or supplies) in a military park.
15. to enclose in or as in a park.
16. Informal. to invest (funds) in a stock, bond, etc., considered to be a safe investment with little chance of depreciation, as during a recession or an unstable economic period, or until one finds a more profitable investment.
17. Aerospace. to place (a satellite) in orbit.
–verb (used without object) 18. to park a car, bicycle, etc.
19. Informal. to engage in kissing and caressing in a parked car.


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[Origin: 1225–75; ME (n.) < OF parc enclosure < LL *parricus < WGmc *parruk (see paddock1)]

—Related forms
parker, noun
parklike, adjective
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Answer 2

When you think of park, most think of like you said.
The Playground.

I think of parks as a land where others can lounge, see things, and even play.

Then again a park can be like the link below.
Sort of like a word that can have different meanings.
Like the word hair.
It could mean like on your head, or a fragment of time. Like just by a hair.

So it depends. it truly does depend.

Answer 3

I usually think a place with grass..but the best kind is an amusement park.

Answer 4

to "park" implies leaving the path and enjoy a place set aside for the public enjoyment.

Answer 5

Its a place where you "park" your rump on a bench and watch your kids play.

Answer 6

a park is pretty much a place where people have "fun" or just chill.

Answer 7

a place to hook up when you cheat, it's sad you have to watch for pervs too

Answer 8

yeah... and you better not play where i park, or you will be roadkill