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# picnic

«picnic» in Mova's school dictionary: **a meal eaten outside, often in a park or on a beach…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

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

### meaning for a pupil

1) A picnic is a meal eaten outside, often in a park or on a beach, sitting on a blanket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#m1)

2) To picnic is to have a picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#m2)

3) «No picnic» means not easy: «Moving house is no picnic». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#m3)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x1)
- 8 friends went on a picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x2)
- Each person at the picnic got 2 apples. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x3)
- How many cups are needed for the picnic? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x4)
- We had a picnic by the lake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x5)
- Pack the picnic basket with fruit and water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x6)
- Ants crawled all over our picnic blanket. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x7)
- Take your rubbish home after a picnic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/#x8)
- Learning to skate was no picnic! [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### In the corpora

- [Then they choose the cheap fun: a picnic and a library trip instead of the cinema.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/9-when-money-is-tight/6/)
- [When a chatbot describes its weekend or its picnic, it is making up a story, because it has no weekends.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/1-what-is-ai/12/)
- [Before they set off, the Rat climbs up into his hole and comes back staggering under a fat wicker picnic basket.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/26-willows-ch1-part2-the-river-and-the-wild-wood/0/)
- [The Mole has to trot up and down to dry himself while the Rat rescues the boat and dives for the picnic basket.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/28-willows-ch1-part4-sploosh/8/)
- [Words ending in c add a k to keep the hard sound: panic, panicking; picnic, picnicked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «picnic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/picnic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.