rec

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rec"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɛk/
• Homophones: recc, reck, wreck

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk

Noun

rec (countable and uncountable, plural recs)

1. (uncountable, informal) Clipping of recreation.

   At 11 o'clock, school's out, and it's time for rec.

2. (countable, informal) Clipping of recreation ground.

   Synonym: reccy

3. (countable, informal) Clipping of recommendation.

   Synonym: recc

   • 2018, Jonathan Evison, Lawn Boy, page 48:

     “Got any recs?”
     “What are you looking for?”
     “Something angry,” I said.

   • 2025 December 3, Lizzy Goodman, “Lily Allen’s West End Girl Midlife Crisis Is Inspiring”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Your parents are suddenly old. Your kids are likely still very young, if you have them — many my age are exchanging fertility doctor recs the way we used to hype new bands.

     (Can we archive this URL?)

Derived terms

• rec hall
• rec league
• rec room

Verb

rec (third-person singular simple present recs or rec's, present participle reccing or recing or rec'ing, simple past and past participle recced or reced or rec'd or rec'ed)

1. (transitive, informal) To recommend.

   Synonym: recc

2. (transitive, informal) To record.

Adjective

rec (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of recreational.

Anagrams

• CER, CRE, ERC, Erc, RCE

Catalan

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *ɸrik- (“furrow”). Compare Occitan rèc (whence French arrèc) and Basque erreka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈrek]

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Homophone: reg

Noun

rec m (plural recs)

1. irrigation ditch

Derived terms

• reguer

Related terms

• rega
• regar

Further reading

• “rec”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007

Old English

Alternative forms

• rīec

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, whence also Old Frisian rēk, Old Saxon rōk, Old Dutch rouc, Old High German rouh, Old Norse reykr. Possibly a loan from the Old Norse instead.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /reːk/

Noun

rēc m

1. smoke

Declension

Strong i-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	rēc	rēcas
accusative	rēc	rēcas
genitive	rēces	rēca
dative	rēce	rēcum

Descendants

• Middle English: rek
  • English: reek
  • Scots: reek, reik

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Reck.

Noun

rec n (plural recuri)

1. (gymnastics) horizontal bar

Declension

	singular			plural
	indefinite	definite		indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	rec	recul		recuri	recurile
genitive-dative	rec	recului		recuri	recurilor
vocative	recule			recurilor