picnic

Plural: picnics

Noun

• a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
• any undertaking that is easy to do
  • "marketing this product will be no picnic"
• any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion
• An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink.
• The meal eaten at such a gathering.
• An easy or pleasant task.
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: picnicked, picnicking, picnics

• To go on an outdoor excursion with packed food.
• eat alfresco, in the open air
  • "We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday"
• To take part in a picnic.

Examples

• They decided to PICNIC with friends after an intense Words With Friends tournament.
• We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic, and to be patient.
• We went out for a picnic in the forest.

Synonyms

breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, field day, outing, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover

Related Words

packed lunch

Anagrams of picnic