Food / A1

PIKN-ik/ˈpɪknɪk/

A picnic is a meal you eat outside, in a park or by the river. Have a picnic; a picnic lunch; a picnic blanket. A barbecue cooks food on a fire outside; a picnic is often cold food from a bag. Countable: a picnic. Pack a picnic.

Meaning

A meal you eat outside, for example in a park.

Examples

• “We had a picnic by the river.”
• “It is too wet for a picnic.”
• “They sat on the grass for their picnic.”

Good to know

have / pack a picnic. Place: park, river. Contrast: barbecue (cooked outside).

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