different between recreation vs escapade

English

Etymology 1

From Middle French récréation, from Old French recreacion, from Latin recreatio.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /??k?i?e???n/
• (US) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /??k?i?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

recreation (countable and uncountable, plural recreations)

1. Any activity, such as play, that amuses, diverts or stimulates.

Synonyms

• leisure

Derived terms

Related terms

• recreate

Translations

Etymology 2

re- +? creation

Alternative forms

• re-creation

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /?i?k?i?e???n/
• (US) enPR: r?-kr?-??sh?n, IPA^(key): /?i?k?i?e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

recreation (plural recreations)

1. The process of recreating something.
2. The result of this process.

Usage notes

Hyphenated form re-creation avoids confusion with more common other sense.

Related terms

• recreate

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French escapade (“the act of escaping; a trick”), borrowed from Old Spanish escapada, from escapar (“to escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excapp? (“to escape”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s'k?-p?d', IPA^(key): /??sk??pe?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Noun

escapade (plural escapades)

1. A daring or adventurous act; an undertaking which goes against convention.
   • 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary - Volume II, ch. 9:

     [Nobody] stood more confounded than Oldbuck at this sudden escapade of his nephew. "Is the devil in him," was his first exclamation, "to go to disturb the brute?"

   • 1918, P. G. Wodehouse, Piccadilly Jim, ch. 1:

     He is always doing something to make himself notorious. There was that breach-of-promise case, and that fight at the political meeting, and his escapades at Monte Carlo.

   • 2011 March 4, Richard Corliss, "The Adjustment Bureau" (film review), Time (retrieved 23 March 2014):

     He seems on the verge of winning the New York Senate election when the New York Post runs a photo of David’s exposed butt in a mooning escapade from his college days.

Related terms

• escape

Translations

French

Noun

escapade f (plural escapades)

1. escapade

Galician

Verb

escapade

1. second-person plural imperative of escapar