wreckreation
Recreation that wrecks or harms the environmentRecreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in areas where raptors nest, or simply hiking in areas that disturb existing flora, fauna and archaeological resources.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)Recreation that wrecks or harms the environment. For example, running off-road vehicles and mountain bikes through ecologically sensitive areas, running boats with large wakes in narrow watercourses so as to cause bank erosion, climbing in areas where raptors nest, or simply hiking in areas that disturb existing flora, fauna and archaeological resources.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080509133709/http://www.peer.org/campaigns/publiclands/orv/index.php Off-Road “Wreckreation” Plagues Public Lands
http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2009/11/11/Wreckreation/index.html - By Jim Cooperman, 11 Nov 2009, TheTyee.ca BC's Shameful Backcountry Wreckreation
Origin
Blend of wreck + recreation.Blend of wreck + recreation.
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Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable