tot lot

n. (part of) a playground for very young children. Subjects: English

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Citations: 1938 Coshocton Tribune (Ohio) (Sept. 30) “Children Have Own ‘Tot-Lot’” (in Boston) p. 10: A play-yard paradise “Tot-Lot,” has been established in the courtyard of St. Stephens church. 1952 Nevada State Journal (Reno) (Sept. 14) “New Playground is Equipped With Scrap Materials” p. 6: Money is scarce and small youngsters are plentiful. By using ingenuity instead of cash, the people at Herlong set up what they call a Tot Lot. It is a playground designed and built almost entirely from scrap material. 1982 Nancy Arum @ Yorktown Heights New York Times (July 12) “A Community Effort Pays Off”: The response of the community included the Lions Club, which was looking for a service project and decided there was a need for an imaginative and safe children’s playground. It plans to build a “tot lot” behind the center, near its basketball court, baseball diamond and jogging area. 2006 Daphna Behar Miami Herald (Florida) (July 16) “Resources ever expanding at area parks”: Surfside’s Hawthorne Park, also known as “tot lot” playground, located on the corner of Hawthorne Avenue and 90th Street in the center of the town. The tot lot stands out as one of the few shaded playgrounds, and is the most recent renovation in Surfside’s park system. Toys are always scattered about from neighborhood kids, and the playground offers new play equipment including climbing, sliding, swinging and riding equipment, including a generous sandbox area. “The tot lot is very much a neighborhood facility.”

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