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# picnic

noun (picnic, picnics); verb (picnic, picnics, picnicked, picnicking)

«picnic» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A picnic is a meal eaten outside, often in a park or on a beach, sitting on a blanket. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#m1)
2. To picnic is to have a picnic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#m2)
3. «No picnic» means not easy: «Moving house is no picnic». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#m3)

### In the lessons

In maths: an outing where food, people and things are counted and shared; sharing equally means divide. In everyday life: summer picnics, picnic baskets, picnic tables. In science and safety: keep food cool, take rubbish home, watch out for wasps and the sun. In stories: «The Teddy Bears' Picnic»; ants at a picnic.

### Examples

- They took 12 sandwiches to the picnic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x1)
- 8 friends went on a picnic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x2)
- Each person at the picnic got 2 apples. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x3)
- How many cups are needed for the picnic? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x4)
- We had a picnic by the lake. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x5)
- Pack the picnic basket with fruit and water. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x6)
- Ants crawled all over our picnic blanket. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x7)
- Take your rubbish home after a picnic. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x8)
- Learning to skate was no picnic! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x9)
- I remember when I went out to a picnic with the furrier's family, on the day his daughter was betrothed,--it seems as if it only happened yesterday. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x10)

### Note

A place of the story; counts of food and people. Sharing equally = divide. No operation by itself. Spelling: picnicked and picnicking add a «k». Safety: drink water, wear sunscreen, and keep food covered.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «picnic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«picnic» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/picnic.html) on Mova free.