dayrooms
Shared recreation spaces
Dayrooms are communal living spaces in institutions—hospitals, prisons, military barracks, or psychiatric facilities—where residents gather during waking hours.
Distinguished from sleeping quarters, a dayroom typically contains seating, tables, and sometimes a television, providing a place to socialize or pass time: Patients shuffled into the dayroom after breakfast.
Protected person; division
- mental hospitalPsychiatric inpatient facility
- patientsThose receiving medical treatment
- asylumShelter from persecution
- common areaSpace accessible to all
institution · recreation · therapy · observation · staff · medication · facility · lounge
Confinement for offenders
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- common areaSpace accessible to all
- recreationRefreshment through leisure
- facilitySkill or equipped premises
cells · guards · television · socialization · detention · penitentiary · housing unit · privileges
Soldiers' residential building
- soldiersMilitary personnel who fight
- enlistedSigned up formally
- baseSupporting bottom structure
- quartersAssigned living accommodations
recreation · off-duty · relaxation · bunks · servicemembers · mess hall · leisure · dormitory
ward
Protected person; division
- mental hospitalPsychiatric inpatient facility
- patientsThose receiving medical treatment
- asylumShelter from persecution
common area · institution · recreation · therapy · observation · staff · medication · facility · lounge · residents
prison
Confinement for offenders
- inmatesIncarcerated individuals
- common areaSpace accessible to all
- recreationRefreshment through leisure
facility · cells · guards · television · socialization · detention · penitentiary · housing unit · privileges · incarceration
barracks
Soldiers' residential building
quarters · recreation · off-duty · relaxation · bunks · servicemembers · mess hall · leisure · dormitory · troops