picnic
(pɪknɪk )
Word forms: picnics , picnicking , picnicked
1. countable noun A1
When people have a picnic, they eat a meal out of doors, usually in a field or a forest, or at the beach.
We're going on a picnic tomorrow.
We'll take a picnic lunch.
Synonyms: excursion, fête champêtre, barbecue, barbie [informal]
2. verb
When people picnic somewhere, they have a picnic.
Afterwards, we picnicked on the riverbank. [VERB]
...such a perfect day for picnicking. [VERB-ing]
picnicker Word forms: picnickers countable noun
...fires started by careless picnickers.
3. be no picnic phrase
If you say that an experience, task, or activity is no picnic, you mean that it is quite difficult or unpleasant. [informal]
Emigrating is no picnic.
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Idioms:
be no picnic
be difficult or unpleasant
`Poor little mites,' she said of the evacuees. `It's no picnic for them being taken away from their homes.'
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someone is one sandwich short of a picnic
said to indicate in a humorous way that you think someone is very stupid or is behaving very strangely
His daughter confirmed that her father was definitely one sandwich short of a picnic.
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Collocations:
picnic chair picnic food plan a picnic
Back at the racecourse, the lawns vanished beneath a sea of picnic chairs and rugs.
Times, Sunday Times
She took a picture of the family's abandoned picnic chairs with smoke still billowing behind.
The Sun
The removable seats could be used as picnic chairs.
The Sun
Residents are being asked to bring their own tables and picnic food.
Times, Sunday Times
Like it was a phantom ship filled with picnic food, hamburgers and what not, all rotted in the sun, all covered with flies.
Times, Sunday Times
For example, it substituted 'design a picnic' for the skills of making picnic food.
Times, Sunday Times
There are times when picnic food should be a little more upscale than a sandwich, but no less convenient to eat.
Times, Sunday Times
It keeps well and could be laced with strong grated cheddar or tuna from a tin, turning it into perfect picnic food.
Times, Sunday Times
Check out the meat and cheese stalls at the food market if you are planning a picnic.
The Sun
His father, in trying to be both mommy and daddy, had planned a picnic.
Christianity Today
So we planned some picnics.
Christianity Today
Translations:
Chinese: 野餐, 野餐
Japanese: ピクニック, ピクニックに行く
- by contrast
- by contrast/in contrast/in contrast to sth
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- by definition
- by degrees
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- bye-bye
- bye-law
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- by-election
- Byelorussian
- by fair means or foul
- by fair means or foul
- by far
- by force of
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- by general/common consent
- by general consent
- bygone
- bygone age
- bygone days