Tag:leisure=schoolyard
 leisure = schoolyard
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Outdoor area for spending school breaks. 
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A schoolyard is an outdoor area within a school campus where the pupils can spend their breaks between lessons ("recess", in American English). While in English also described as the "school playground", it typically is a paved area for walking around. This tag's meaning is more specific than the English term "schoolyard" (which can refer to an open field) and often describes what is called a "blacktop" in American English.
Please note that the entire school campus is tagged as amenity=school, comprising the school building (building=school), the leisure=schoolyard, sports facilities (leisure=pitch, leisure=track, leisure=sports_hall), sometimes dedicated play areas e.g. with sandpit and climbing frame (leisure=playground), and auxiliary areas such as amenity=parking.
How to map
Create an area 
for the schoolyard and add the tag leisure=schoolyard.
Access
The typical access rights depend on the country and the region, so it is best to tag access=private (for school members and pupils only) or access=yes (for other use outside of school hours) explicitly, when known.
Activity structures and markings
Besides dedicated playgrounds or sports pitches separate from the schoolyard (as indicated in the drawing above), some schoolyards may have painted markings or installations on themselves for various recess activities.
These might be micromapped within the schoolyard area, and tagged with the particular activity, e.g.
- leisure=pitch, for example with sport=basketball, sport=table_tennis,sport=funnel_ball, sport=tetherball, or sport=chess
- game playing encouragements, e.g. playground=hopscotch, playground=map, playground=four_square
- educational paintings, e.g. man_made=compass_rose
Examples
A schoolyard with a walking track and hopscotch
A schoolyard with basketball hoops and a painted running track
A schoolyard next to a playground (to the right, behind the fence)
A schoolyard with various recess activities next to small playgrounds (in the distance)
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Software support
openstreetmap-carto does not render this tag [1], in part because iD does not have a preset for it [2], because this tag has not been formally approved and does not have sufficient usage as of December 2021.