picnic

See also: PICNIC and pícnic

English

Alternative forms

• picknick (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from French pique-nique.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pĭkʹ-nĭk, IPA^(key): /ˈpɪknɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪknɪk
• Hyphenation: pic‧nic

Noun

picnic (plural picnics)

1. 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.

2. The meal eaten at such a gathering.
3. (figurative) An easy or pleasant task.

   Synonym: piece of cake

   We remind the guests that dealing with this problem is no picnic, and to be patient.

   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind:

     "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. […]

4. (obsolete) An entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• picnic basket
• picnic box
• picnicker

• picnic sheet
• picnic table

Translations

social gathering

• Danish: skovtur c
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سەیران (seyran)

  Northern Kurdish: seyran (ku)

  Southern Kurdish: سەێران (seÿran)

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a meal eaten outdoors

• Armenian: զբոսախնջույք (hy) (zbosaxnǰuykʻ)
• Belarusian: пікні́к m (pikník)
• Bulgarian: пикни́к m (pikník)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 野餐 (zh) (yěcān)

• Czech: piknik m
• Danish: picnic
• Dutch: picknick (nl) m
• Esperanto: pikniko
• Finnish: eväsretki (fi)
• French: pique-nique (fr) m, piquenique (fr) m
• Galician: merenda (gl) f, pandorgada f, pícnic m
• German: Picknick (de) n
• Hungarian: piknik (hu)
• Ido: pikniko (io)
• Indonesian: piknik (id)
• Japanese: ピクニック (pikunikku)
• Korean: 소풍 (ko) (sopung), 피크닉 (pikeunik)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani:

• Macedonian: и́злет m (ízlet), пи́кник m (píknik)
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• Maltese: piknik m, xalata
• Ngazidja Comorian: mɗezo
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: piknik m

  Nynorsk: piknik m

• Polish: piknik (pl) m
• Portuguese: piquenique (pt) f
• Russian: пикни́к (ru) m (pikník)
• Scottish Gaelic: cuirm-chnuic f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: излет m, пикник m

  Roman: izlet (sh) m, piknik (sh) m

• Slovak: piknik m
• Slovene: piknik m
• Spanish: jira (es) f, pícnic f
• Sundanese: botram, mayor
• Swedish: picknick (sv) c
• Tagalog: kura, hira (tl)
• Turkish: piknik (tr)
• Ukrainian: пікні́к (uk) m (pikník)
• Vietnamese: du ngoạn (vi)

an easy or pleasant task

• Arabic: مَهَمَّة سَهْلَة f (mahamma sahla)
• Finnish: huviretki
• French: jeu d’enfant (fr) m
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• German: Kinderspiel (de) n
• Hungarian: nem leányálom (negative)
• Russian: прия́тное времяпрепровожде́ние n (prijátnoje vremjapreprovoždénije)

See also

• packed lunch

Verb

picnic (third-person singular simple present picnics, present participle picnicking, simple past and past participle picnicked)

1. To eat a picnic.

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English picnic, from French pique-nique.

Noun

picnic m (uncountable)

1. picnic (outdoor meal)

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English picnic, from French pique-nique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiɡniɡ/ [ˈpiɣ̞.niɣ̞]

Noun

picnic m (plural picnics)

1. Misspelling of pícnic.