walk in the park

English

Alternative forms

• stroll in the park, walk after lunch

Pronunciation

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Noun

walk in the park (plural walks in the park)

1. Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: A recreational walk in a park.

   I love to walk when it's sunny - let's go for a walk in the park, shall we?

2. (idiomatic) Something easy or pleasant.

   High school was difficult, but it was a walk in the park compared to college engineering classes.

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:easy thing.

Translations

something easy or pleasant

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: bufar i fer ampolles
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 非常容易的事 (fēicháng róngyì de shì), 小菜一碟 (zh) (xiǎocàiyīdié), 易如反掌 (zh) (yìrúfǎnzhǎng)

• Czech: procházka růžovou zahradou
• Finnish: helppo nakki (fi), leivänheitto
• German: Zuckerschlecken n, Spaziergang (de) m
• Japanese: お易い御用 (おやすいごよう, o-yasui go-yō)

• Polish: bułka z masłem (pl) (butter bun), łatwizna (pl) f
• Russian: щёлкать как се́мечки (ščólkatʹ kak sémečki), как па́лец о па́лец уда́рить (kak pálec o pálec udáritʹ, literally “like hitting a finger with a finger”), про́ще просто́го (próšče prostóvo, literally “simpler than the simple”), как два па́льца обосса́ть (ru) (kak dva pálʹca obossátʹ, literally “like pissing on two fingers”) (vulgar), прогу́лка в па́рке (progúlka v párke) (calque of English), пустя́к (ru) m (pustják) (often in plural), проще па́ренной ре́пы (prošče párennoj répy) (colloquial)
• Spanish: coser y cantar