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[tidla]

Down here in Kent, certainly when I was a child, we used the word "wreck" to describe the grass and play areas (swings, slides, etc). 

All locals (of High Brooms) which included my dad, and the children around me grew up using that term, but although I have known others from that area who used the same word, I have never yet found it in use elsewhere!  Where, and how it was originally used I do not know but it went back many generations

I think that this is "Rec", which is short for
'Recreation Ground.'

Could be wrong, though; frequently am. 

It may be, it would be logical, but it was spelt as "wreck", and said in that full sense.  Maybe it was nicknamed "wreck" when recreational grounds first came into use, and it stuck in certain parts.

Many words, and names, of course started out in history in one form and metamorphised into the terms we know today.   

I should have read the full thing first 

i suppose "wreck" would be a good word if the didicoys have weighed all the rather slides in.

[Turk]

where im from its a cat

Same here too.

[Ken T]

Not forgetting "Bampot".

The Urban dictionary has several examples showing several of the many and varied uses this word has . 

Ken

[jonnycool]

Talking of 'ken', why do Scottish people say "I ken that" when they mean "I know that"?