parklife en · NOUN
Etymology
park + life. Almost unattested prior to the 1994 Blur single "Parklife".
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) The lifestyle and culture of parkgoers.
From the zoological garden, via the nature reserve and the theme-town, to the TV reality-show — sequences from the evolution of "parklife".
2001, Sven Lütticken, “Parklife”, in New Left Review:Up in the boughs, a literate London Tarzan. Down to earth, a woman on the wait. All part of parklife, give or take the ups and downs.
1971, William Samsom, “A Stroll in the Park”, in Réalités, numbers 242-247, page 65:In Stockholm parklife, certain behaviours are framed as bad, unacceptable, or pathological by institutions such as the police and the social services.
2012 October 2, Jonas Bylund and Andrew Byerley, “Friction zones and emergent publics in Stockholm parklife”, in OpenDemocracy:I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing. (Parklife!)
1994, “Parklife”, in Parklife, performed by Blur with Phil Daniels: