picnic
Syllables: pic·nic/ˈpɪknɪk/
picnic noun: an informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
Noun
picnic (plural picnics)
- An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
- We went out for a picnic in the forest.
- The meal eaten at such a gathering.
- An easy or pleasant task.
- We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic, and to be patient.
- "Don't put your hand on me," said Uncle Henry irritably. "I'm crawling with lice. War would be a picnic if it wasn't for lice and dysentery. […]1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- piece of cake
- An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.
- A cut of pork from the shoulder area (above the front leg) of a pig.
- Smoked picnics of medium weights - from 6 to 8 pounds - are selling at wholesale at present for about half the price of fancy hams. Standard bacon of medium weights is another smoked product that is selling […]1923, The National Provisioner, page 50
- Smoked picnics (calas) are pork shoulders with the butt portion removed just beyond the knuckle bone. Shoulder butts are boneless […]1940, War Department Technical Manual, page 53
Verb
picnic (third-person singular simple present picnics, present participle picnicking, simple past and past participle picnicked)
- To take part in a picnic.
- And I'll never forget the chillingly instinctive racism. "Sure is pretty countryside. Pity it's spoiled by the niggers picknickin."2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 71
Phrase capitalized: PICNIC
PICNIC
- Acronym of problem in chair, not in computer: states that the problem was not in the computer but was instead caused by the user operating it.
- Inspiration also comes from the workers who take care of the workers. Ever reported a picnic error to the IT helpdesk? No? Well they're logging them. It stands for a problem in chair, not in computer error among hapless colleagues.2006 November, Claire Heald, “Let's help to herd the dinosaurs”, in BBC News
picnic meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Telugu
picnic in Hindi
- a meal eaten outdoors
- पिकनिक piknik
picnic in Urdu
- پکنک
picnic in Bengali
- পিকনিক, বনভোজ, পিকনিক করা
picnic in Telugu
- పిక్నిక్, పిక్నిక్కు
More languagesFewer languages
- picnic in Malayalam
- പിക്നിക്, പിക്നിക്ക്
- picnic in Kannada
- ಪಿಕ್ನಿಕ್
- picnic in Punjabi
- ਪਿਕਨਿਕ piknik
- picnic in Gujarati
- પિકનિક, પિકનીક, પિકનીકિંગ
- picnic in Odia
- ପିକ୍ନିକ୍, ବଣଭୋଜି, ପିକନିକ
- picnic in Nepali
- पिकनिक, पिक्निक
- picnic in Tagalog
- kura, hira
- picnic in Arabic
- نُزْهَة nuzha, مَهَمَّة سَهْلَة mahamma sahla
- picnic in Indonesian
- berkelah, makan angin, piknik, botram
- picnic in Thai
- ปิกนิก bpík-ník
- picnic in Vietnamese
- dã ngoại, píc-níc
Examples of picnic in a sentence
- There will be a catered picnic at Saint John's on Sunday. All are welcome.
- At Birling Gap we can stop and go have a picnic on the beach.
- The first item for discussion is the budget for next year's picnic.
Synonyms of picnic
Forms of picnic
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | picnics |
| alternative form | pic-a-nic |
| alternative form (archaic) | picknick |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | picnics |
| present participle | picnicking |
| past participle | picnicked |
| past | picnicked |
Origin of picnic
Borrowed from French pique-nique.
Words formed from picnic
- few sandwiches short of a picnic
- no picnic
- picnic area
- picnic basket
- picnic beetle
- picnic blanket
- picnic box
- picnic bug
- picnic egg
- picnic ham
- picnicker
- picnickery
- picnickian
- picnickish
- picnicky
- picniclike
- picnic pie
- picnic sheet
- picnic shoulder
- picnic site
- picnic table
- picnicware
- steel beach picnic
- teddy bears' picnic
- Wiknic
Phrases with picnic
Words that rhyme with picnic
Questions about picnic
- What does picnic mean?
- Picnic means an informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
- What is picnic in Hindi?
- Picnic in Hindi is पिकनिक (piknik). See Picnic meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is picnic?
- Picnic can be a noun, a verb or a phrase.
- How do you pronounce picnic?
- Picnic is pronounced /ˈpɪknɪk/.
- What is the plural of picnic?
- The plural of picnic is picnics.
Words near picnic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: picnic (page history and authors); PICNIC (page history and authors); picnic (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picnic (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picnic (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picnic (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picnic (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picnic (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picnic (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); picnic (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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