PICNIC


Meaning of PICNIC in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pɪknɪk ]

( picnics, picnicking, picnicked)

1.

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.

N-COUNT

2.

When people picnic somewhere, they have a picnic.

Afterwards, we picnicked on the riverbank.

...such a perfect day for picnicking.

VERB : V , V-ing

• pic‧nick‧er

(picnickers)

...fires started by careless picnickers.

N-COUNT

3.

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.

PHRASE : V inflects

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