outdoor recreation

collocation in English

meaningsofoutdoorandrecreation

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outdoor
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈaʊtˌdɔːr/us
/ˈaʊtˌdɔːr/
existing, happening, or done outside, rather than inside ...
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recreation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌrek.riˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌrek.riˈeɪ.ʃən/
(a way of) enjoying yourself when you are ...
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(Definition ofoutdoorandrecreationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was not possible to determine whether inmates acquired the infection while in their cells or duringoutdoorrecreationperiods.
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The centres should have adjoining them gardens and playing fields, including a swimming bath, foroutdoorrecreation.
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Their business is to provide healthyoutdoorrecreationfor young people in the villages.
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I see no need to introduce a teaching qualification inoutdoorrecreation.
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We are now seeking to encourage the development of facilities for the enjoyment ofoutdoorrecreation.
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They were established in an effort to protect our heritage and to encourageoutdoorrecreation.
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I want to say a word about the part our forests have to play in meeting the demand foroutdoorrecreation.
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Great pressure foroutdoorrecreationinevitably increases the threat of trespass and makes farmers more reluctant to let the public on to their land.
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As tooutdoorrecreation, the miner is a man who likesoutdoorrecreation.
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It seems strange that there should be this difference between indoor andoutdoorrecreation, especially in view of our wretched climate.
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In other words, it is not only the house and its contents but theoutdoorrecreationwhich a visit to a country house can provide.
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In the years before the war we witnessed a remarkable growth inoutdoorrecreationamong young people.
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Troops who engage inoutdoorrecreationfor their own amusement or pleasure will be able to exercise their right of access.
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Foroutdoorrecreation, a certain amount goes on gear for a wide variety of sports.
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So, in the longer term, a substantial area of former waste land will become widely available for informaloutdoorrecreation.
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The council is taking £367,000 out of museums and libraries, increasing charges at sports centres and swimming baths and cutting jobs inoutdoorrecreation.
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Then there is the question of making adequate provision foroutdoorrecreationof the young people.
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As far as possible, green belts should, among other things, benefit the urban population by providing accessible open countryside andoutdoorrecreationfacilities that enhance the quality of life.
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They are distinguished from the latter in the legislation on the basis of access for extensiveoutdoorrecreation, not on the basis of beauty or ecology.
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These are schemes which never attract a great deal of publicity, but they are going on, and they show the great eagerness in local communities foroutdoorrecreation.
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