🇬🇧 Recess meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

Recess is a special break during the school day when classes stop and kids don’t have to do schoolwork. During recess, you can go outside (or sometimes stay inside), run around, play games, talk with friends, eat a snack, or just relax before going back to learning.

At recess, my hair gets so wild that it looks like it’s having more fun than I am.

Recess is like hitting the pause button on school so your brain can go, “Whew, thanks!”

I ran so much at recess that my legs wrote a complaint letter to my brain.

We had a serious meeting at recess to decide the most important question: tag or hide-and-seek.

When the teacher said it was recess, half the class cheered and the other half had already disappeared out the door.

At recess, the bell sang and the class burst out; at recess they raced to swings, tiny faces lit. One boy dropped his toy at recess; a girl returned it and they shared smiles, the sun at recess warming their hands. When recess ended, they trudged back, still laughing, already waiting for the next recess.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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