picnic
noun
an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
picnicked
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past participleof picnic.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof picnic.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
picnicnounan excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air.
Example Sentences
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Olivia Rodrigo picnicked in the park with one.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
Young women and men picnicked side by side on the pavement, chanting: “Woman! Life! Freedom!”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2022
Before the Taliban seized power, men and women picnicked together in parks on weekends and chatted over cappuccinos in its coffee shops.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2022
Streets of identical high-rise apartments were interspersed with parks and wide, tree-lined streets, while residents picnicked beside the Siverskyi Donets river and in forests nearby.
From Reuters ● May 30, 2022
We had picnicked above the beach among the sand dunes, almost on a kind of plateau.
From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep
