Definition of "pleasure ground" []

• A commercially operated park with stalls and shows for amusement (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Hardly more than a hundred yards long, shut off at one end by Jim Sawyer’s boat-house and at the other by a timber wharf, its surface a shingle that was black with mud and oil and strewn with every kind of filthy rubbish, it was a sorry pleasure ground indeed."