a large pit in sandy ground from which sand is dug
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a plaything consisting of a pile of sand or a box filled with sand for children to play in
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Sandpit \Sand"pit`\, n. A pit or excavation from which sand is or has been taken.
Magistrates at Newport, Isle of Wight, cleared a 13-year-old boy of raping a girl in a school sandpit.
The sandpit, otherwise known as Eden, is a replica of an installation created in 1969 by Helio Oiticica, the Brazilian artist. Oiticica saw Eden as a place where people would be tempted away from reality to lose themselves in their imagination.