Glossary
Recreation Worker Terms & Vocabulary
15 essential recreation worker terms with plain-English definitions: the vocabulary you’ll hear in training and on day one.
Key recreation worker vocabulary
These 15 terms come up constantly in recreation worker training, on the job and in interviews. Knowing them helps you follow instructions, document accurately and sound prepared.
- CPRP
- Certified Park and Recreation Professional.
- Facility
- A building or site for programs.
- Head count
- Counting participants.
- Icebreaker
- A game that helps people meet.
- Incident report
- A record of injuries or problems.
- Inclusion
- Making programs accessible to all.
- Parks and recreation
- Government departments that run parks and programs.
- Participant
- A person in a program.
- Program
- An organized activity series.
- Ratio
- Participants per staff.
- Registration
- Signing up participants.
- Special event
- A one-time activity or festival.
- Supervision
- Watching participants for safety.
- Theme week
- Activities organized around a theme.
- Waiver
- A liability form.
Practice these terms
Test yourself with the free Recreation Worker practice test: it includes vocabulary questions built from this list. For a complete course, see Recreation Worker training.
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