I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a picnic area (= an area outdoors where you can eat a meal )
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We pulled off the highway into a picnic area for lunch.
a picnic basket
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We took a picnic basket and a rug.
one sandwich short of a picnic
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He’s one sandwich short of a picnic .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
area
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Holywell recreated a typical rural halt of the branchline age and there is a picnic area , ideal for children.
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Once at the picnic area , store the cooler in the shade and open it only when necessary.
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Since then much has been done to improve and protect the area including a new information and exhibition centre and picnic areas.
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Jacobs Field in Cleveland has a pre-game picnic area and kiddie land.
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Beautiful parkland with avenues and lakes; picnic area; gift shop; woodland play area .
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Soon hoofers pass a grassy picnic area honoring the friendly relations between Los Angeles and Berlin.
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It is next to Friston Forest with its forest walks and picnic areas , and is a short walk from the sea.
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It calls for creating a skateboard park, a picnic area , a sculpture to climb on and an amphitheater.
basket
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Whilst cricket was played onlookers would sit along the bank at Petts Field with picnic baskets and with gramophones playing.
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Families with children carrying picnic baskets , thermoses, baseball bats, shoulder bags.
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She brought lashings of food in a picnic basket .
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Families spread checkered cloths on the lawn and opened picnic baskets .
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I'd better collect the picnic basket .
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This is what I think of as true peasant bread and it makes a terrific loaf for the picnic basket .
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Matthew looked up from the picnic basket as though aware of her intent, serious gaze.
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He began to pack things into the picnic basket .
hamper
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We don't own a picnic hamper .
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Many of them had been camped here since early evening with their picnic hampers and lawn chairs.
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The picnic hamper had been stacked quietly and moved aside.
lunch
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Hard-boiled eggs are sneaked from breakfast buffets to be scoffed for picnic lunches .
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This picnic lunch is usually eaten in random bites on the seafloor.
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Enjoy the scenic drive along the floor of the Great Rift Valley, with a picnic lunch enroute.
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The picnic lunch which had been eaten immediately on arrival had rendered some of the elders somnolent.
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Here you can buy everything for a picnic lunch .
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For want of a better location, we ate our picnic lunch in the cemetery with superb views of the north coast.
place
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But above all the setting is lovely, and is a temptation to find a picnic place .
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They also patrol camp sites and parking and picnic places .
site
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The 22 year old's body was found at the remote Longslade picnic site near Milton Keynes.
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Children will love the adventure playground and miniature railway, picnic sites and woodland walks.
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This is a working farm with farm trails and picnic sites , located on B.591 four miles south of Loughborough.
spot
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Read in studio Two men have denied murdering a twenty two year old man at a remote picnic spot .
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They were easy, scenic and had plenty of beautiful picnic spots .
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The body of Angela Stewart was found at a picnic spot near Farnham.
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There is also a Nature Trail, a tea room and plenty of picnic spots .
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It was not at all as I had imagined the Nawab's favourite picnic spot !
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With a sigh now she took a turning off the narrow road into one of the summer picnic spots overlooking Loch Lomond.
table
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Here, if you have managed to carry your food so far, there are picnic tables .
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The temperatures in your kitchen and around your picnic table range from 65 to 95 degrees.
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The beer garden is an urban embarrassment of grey pebble beach and picnic tables .
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In some places, an inch of dust coats picnic tables , cars and tents.
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Most of them placed their beach-bags on a picnic table or on the ground next to the shower.
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A half-eaten meal sits on its paper plate atop a picnic table , cold and buried in dust.
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He drove past until he found a rest area: just a track behind trees and a few picnic tables .
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A campground, picnic tables , an equestrian center and a youth camp are among developments being talked about for the property.
■ VERB
bring
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So bring your blankets, picnics and arrive early for the pre-show entertainment.
eat
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Family groups sat on the grass eating picnics , a band played, couples danced.
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It was so cold that they ate their picnic lunch inside a truck.
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For want of a better location, we ate our picnic lunch in the cemetery with superb views of the north coast.
go
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This isn't going to be a picnic , if I know the press.
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Keeping it going was no picnic , either.
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I was just going to have a picnic .
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No one said it was going to be a picnic .
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Members of the house-party were constantly taking trips; calling on neighbours, going on picnics , inspecting local beauty spots.
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Farmers don't go on picnics .
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If they refused to let me go on a picnic I was uncontrollable for weeks.
pack
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He began to pack things into the picnic basket.
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Whether building a cozy fire, packing a picnic or doing daily chores, everything was too much trouble.
take
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Break your journey, take a picnic , or follow a way-marked walk.
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She said summat about taking him for a picnic . - Stay a bit, Gary.
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Sara and Jenny arrived just before lunch at Moorlake, taking a picnic meal with them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In summer, we sometimes go on picnics together.
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It was a beautiful day - we had a picnic by the river.
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Let's have a picnic Sunday afternoon.
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Pack a picnic lunch and head for the country.
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Some campgrounds provide a picnic table right outside your door.
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We took a picnic down to the beach.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Climb to the summit of even an inaccessible peak and you will find a jolly picnic party already up there before you.
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Since then much has been done to improve and protect the area including a new information and exhibition centre and picnic areas.
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They were easy, scenic and had plenty of beautiful picnic spots.
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This isn't going to be a picnic , if I know the press.
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Until there we are on the bare boards downstairs, with candles and Calorgas and a deli picnic on a paper plate.
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We ended up buying a cheap gas picnic stove for which cartridges were sold everywhere - and luckily it did us proud.
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Wherever this train will go on its next run, there will be open space for picnics and baseball.
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You can see families on outings alongside the drive below you, looking like ants at their own picnic .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Several young couples were picnicking on the beach.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A family picnics in the grass.
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A few miles outside Idar I found a meadow by the side of the Nahe where I could picnic .
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Perhaps they used to picnic here, Sabine thought.
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There are pleasant waterside and wooded areas to picnic in and extensive play areas for children.
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There were also numerous places at which to eat, and places to picnic , and wonderful car parking arrangements.