Picnic
Meaning of Picnic
A meal eaten outdoors.
ما معنى كلمة Picnic بالعربي؟
نزهة خارجية مع الطعام
🧺🌳 نزهة خارجية مع الطعام في الطبيعة؛ رحلة ترفيهية للحدائق أو الشواطئ؛ وجبة جماعية في الهواء الطلق تُقرب الأشخاص وتخلق ذكريات جميلة 🌳🍉
قصة GL: النزهات المعرفية في منصة Genetic G Learning تجعل التعلم مُمتعاً - فبدلاً من الدراسة المُملة، يصبح التدريب الذهني رحلة ممتعة مليئة بالتحديات الشيقة التي تُغذي العقل مثلما تُغذي النزهة الروح 🎪
Synonyms & related words
Picnic in a sentence
Picnic lunches were provided on the field trip.
A picnic event thanked the customers.
Picnic areas are governed by park rules.
Students enjoy a picnic on sports day.
Origin of Picnic
From French pique-nique, of uncertain origin.
In the Genetic Learning (GL) context
In Genetic Learning work led by Naif Talal Al-Essa, picnic also means something easy, as in no picnic. GL outings include a picnic for rest.
Picnic audio micro-course (transcript)
Podcast 1 — Introduction & meaning
Narrator: Today's word is "Picnic" — noun, pronounced /ˈpɪknɪk/, with the stress on "pic".
Narrator: A picnic is a meal packed and carried outdoors, eaten in the open air for pleasure, usually in a park, a field or by the sea.
Narrator: In plain English, it is lunch eaten on a blanket on the grass rather than at a table indoors.
Narrator: It came into English in the eighteenth century from the French piquenique, a playful rhyming word for a social meal where everyone brought a share.
Narrator: A very common collocation is "family picnic", describing a relaxed outdoor gathering with food, rugs and children running about.
Narrator: It differs from a barbecue, because a barbecue involves cooking over fire on the spot, while a picnic is prepared in advance and simply carried along.
Narrator: Figuratively, we say something is "no picnic", meaning it was difficult, tiring or thoroughly unpleasant.
Narrator: The word is relied upon in hospitality, tourism, event planning, catering and park management, and it appears constantly in food retail and weather reporting.
Narrator: So remember: a picnic is food, friends and fresh air, and when a task is "no picnic", it is anything but easy.
Read podcasts 2 and 3
Podcast 2 — In conversation
Speaker A: Why does such a cheerful little word sound almost like a nursery rhyme?
Speaker B: Because it nearly is! PICNIC comes from the French piquenique, a jingly eighteenth-century coinage for a shared meal where each guest contributed something.
Speaker A: So it began as a social idea rather than an outdoor one?
Speaker B: Exactly right. The outdoor sense grew in Victorian Britain, when trains and parks made country outings fashionable.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "We took a picnic to the common on Sunday" — a packed meal eaten outdoors. "The picnic was rained off by four o'clock" — British weather intervening. "Sorting that database out was no picnic" — the figurative sense, meaning genuinely hard work.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Remember the spelling of the verb forms: picnicking and picnicked keep a letter k, so picnicing and picniced are wrong. And picnic is countable, so say a picnic or two picnics.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Outing is the friendly cousin, cookout is the American twin, and alfresco lunch is the smarter alternative, though picnic keeps its rug-on-the-grass charm!
Podcast 3 — Prompt engineering
Speaker B: Let's use "picnic" in AI prompts — useful for building an events booking feature and for writing product copy for an outdoor retail shop.
Speaker A: How would it apply to a booking feature?
Speaker B: Ask the model to model the data properly.
Prompt: Design a database schema for a park booking app where users reserve picnic spots, including fields for location, party size, date and weather cancellation status.
Speaker A: And for the shop's product copy?
Speaker B: Give it a clear voice and length limit.
Prompt: Write three sixty-word product descriptions for a wicker picnic hamper, aimed at British families planning weekend outings.
Speaker A: Could it help with front-end work?
Speaker B: Yes, ask for a component with real states.
Prompt: Create a responsive React card component that displays a picnic event with its date, venue, attendee count and a rained-off badge.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Let's cover testing and edge cases.
Prompt: Write unit tests for a function that cancels a picnic booking when the forecast rainfall exceeds a given threshold, covering boundary and missing-data cases.
Frequently asked questions about Picnic
What does Picnic mean?
A meal eaten outdoors.
ما معنى كلمة Picnic بالعربي؟
نزهة خارجية مع الطعام — 🧺🌳 نزهة خارجية مع الطعام في الطبيعة؛ رحلة ترفيهية للحدائق أو الشواطئ؛ وجبة جماعية في الهواء الطلق تُقرب الأشخاص وتخلق ذكريات جميلة 🌳🍉
How do you pronounce Picnic?
Picnic is pronounced /ˈpɪknɪk/ and is used as a noun / verb.
How is Picnic used in a sentence?
Picnic lunches were provided on the field trip.
What are synonyms of Picnic?
outdoor meal, al fresco meal, outing, excursion, cookout, barbecue.