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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun outing has 2 senses
- outing(n = noun.act) excursion, expedition, jaunt, junket, pleasure trip, sashay - a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" is a kind of journey, journeying
- outing(n = noun.time) field day, picnic - a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering; Array is a kind of holiday, vacation
has particulars: airing, field trip
CIDE DICTIONARY
outing, n.
- The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing. [1913 Webster]
- A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time. Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
outing, n.
1 a short holiday away from home, esp. of one day or part of a day; a pleasure-trip, an excursion.
2 any brief journey from home.
3 an appearance in an outdoor match, race, etc.
1 a short holiday away from home, esp. of one day or part of a day; a pleasure-trip, an excursion.
2 any brief journey from home.
3 an appearance in an outdoor match, race, etc.
Etymology
OUT v. = put out, go out + -ING(1)
THESAURUS
outing
campaign, circuit, course, excursion, expedition, grand tour, jaunt, journey, junket, package tour, peregrination, pilgrimage, pleasure trip, progress, ride, round trip, roundabout, rubberneck tour, run, safari, sally, shoot, spin, stalk, tour, trek, trip, turn, voyageROGET THESAURUS
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Journey
N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.
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