rec

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

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛk

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^[1], 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?)

• rec hall
• rec league
• rec room

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.

rec (not comparable)

1. (informal) Clipping of recreational.

• CER, CRE, ERC, Erc, RCE

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

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

• Audio (Barcelona):

  (file)

• Homophone: reg

rec m (plural recs)

1. irrigation ditch

• reguer

• rega
• regar

• “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

• rīec

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.

• IPA^(key): /reːk/

rēc m

1. smoke

Strong i-stem:

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

Borrowed from German Reck.

rec n (plural recuri)

1. (gymnastics) horizontal bar