Recursion
Recursion is an informal game term. "Recurring" a card is playing a card you'd typically think of as disposable (like an event or minion) many times, usually because of an effect that puts that card into your hand or into play from the Discard pile, or a card that stacks other cards on itself in lieu of sending them to the discard pile.
For example, 
Moria Shadow decks recur Goblin Scimitar (1C180)
many times, to draw cards and generate extra Twilight with (multiple copies of) Goblin Armory (1R173)
. You can only have four copies of Goblin Scimitar, but they replay them many more times than that, by playing and recurring Goblin Scavengers (1C179)
. They recur the Scavengers by using They Are Coming (1C196)
, Host of Thousands (1C187)
, and Goblin Swarms (1R183)
.
Another common example of recurring cards is the 
Dwarven strategy using Preparations (7R12)
. Slaked Thirsts (7U14)
can be played when stacked on a condition, and Sindri, Dwarven Lord (9R10)
will let you play and replay any skirmish event you want.
