1. Any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion
   "They packed a picnic to enjoy in the park"
    
2. A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering
   "The company organized a picnic for employees and their families";
   - field day, outing
    
3. [informal] Any undertaking that is easy to do
   "marketing this product will be no picnic";
   - cinch [informal], breeze [informal], snap [informal], duck soup [N. Amer, informal], child's play [informal], pushover [informal], walkover, piece of cake [informal], doss [Brit, informal], cream puff [N. Amer, informal]

1. Eat alfresco, in the open air
   "We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday"

Sounds like: pickle, picnic

Derived forms: picnics, picnicking, picnicked

Type of: eat, holiday [Brit], labor [US], labour [Brit, Cdn], meal, project, repast, task, undertaking, vac [Brit, informal], vacation, vacay [N. Amer, informal]

Encyclopedia: Picnic, Lightning