to picnic
- verb
- /ˈpɪknɪk/
- On a sunny afternoon, we decided to picnic by the lake with our favorite sandwiches and drinks.
- families picnic
- place to picnic
- want to picnic
Examples
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You will picnic with baguettes.
Blog text (13) -
We'd picnic on the grass, her green eyes sparkling with happiness as she told us how we were going to buy a nice house, toys, and clothes.
Fiction book (2001) -
You picnic on my land, but you are welcome.
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Maybe we were going to picnic at the park pond.
Fiction book (2001) -
Alice decided she'd never discuss her life with him, but he might be fun to picnic with.
Fiction book (1991) -
We chose to picnic.
Blog text (4) -
Sabino Canyon, in the Coronado National Forest, is a popular place to picnic, hike, and swim.
Academic text (1996) -
On Sunday, you took the wife and kids on the trolley to Baird's place, a good walk past the end of the line, to picnic on his back acres.
Fiction book (2002) -
On the one visiting day allowed per summer, we rode across the lake and picnicked on a secluded beach at the edge of a pine forest.
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It was not until my second year there, after meeting Craig, that I made use of this lake, to bathe in and to picnic on its shores.
Fiction book (1995)
Synonyms
Make food outside on a grill or open fire
Idioms
Compounds
How Elaborate
- Informal
Surface Forms
Etymology
Picnic as a verb comes from the noun for the outdoor meal, so to 'picnic' simply means to have a meal outdoors for pleasure.