Definition of "schoolyard" [schoolyard]

• An open area next to a school building for play and outdoor activities. (noun)

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• "Comparing games to movies as if they were antagonists in the schoolyard is as old as the hills -- but if we can't make out where one ends and the other begins, everyone wins."
• "Like young children the Conservative right wing commentators, the RNC Chairman, many of the Republican Members of The Congress, the Party's fringe extremists, engage themselves in schoolyard gamesmanship, misinformation campaigns, distortions of facts, along with ridiculous and unfounded allegations."
• "The schoolyard is bare -- no swings, no monkey bars, no sliding boards."