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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outdoors
I.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
baseball/outdoors/sailing etc enthusiast
▪ a keep-fit enthusiast
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
go
▪ In very cold or icy weather some form of indoor exercise is preferable to going outdoors.
▪ We children went outdoors and played among ourselves.
▪ Wash your face at least half an hour before you go outdoors.
▪ He decides to get dressed and go outdoors.
▪ Avoid going outdoors for about an hour or so.
▪ Try to avoid going outdoors in very cold or icy weather.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the great outdoors
▪ But these two weren't dressing up for the great outdoors.
▪ In fact, anything can happen in the great outdoors.
▪ In the great outdoors, the merit of any feats become meaningless.
▪ Other sights: If you grow bored with the great outdoors or just want to warm up, you have many options.
▪ Save it for the garden or the great outdoors.
▪ Try to be as tolerant with the views of other human beings as you are with the great outdoors.
▪ While some people have a natural aptitude for living in the great outdoors, success usually has little to do with intelligence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He used to work outdoors even in the middle of winter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And perhaps the most striking of all; a pink caned plant which unfortunately isn't hardy enough to survive outdoors.
▪ If he wants to sit outdoors sometimes or eat with us.
▪ It is waterproof and can be used outdoors.
▪ Janir and I were still living in the Jahnkes' tiny cabin, so we spent most, of the day outdoors.
▪ Now when he wants go get outdoors he finds so many ways barred to him.
▪ Off one corner, an octagonal tower walled with mirrors Margarett left outdoors one winter to weather to an appropriate cloudiness.
▪ Sessions will take place both indoors at the centre and outdoors on the adjacent comprehensive school playing fields.
▪ There are others that are just absolutely filthy because they live outdoors.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
▪ Save it for the garden or the great outdoors.
▪ Other sights: If you grow bored with the great outdoors or just want to warm up, you have many options.
▪ In fact, anything can happen in the great outdoors.
▪ While some people have a natural aptitude for living in the great outdoors, success usually has little to do with intelligence.
▪ But these two weren't dressing up for the great outdoors.
▪ In the great outdoors, the merit of any feats become meaningless.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Although he later downplayed his athletic achievements, Mr Packard loved the outdoors and often took associates on hunting or camping trips.
▪ Anything going on in the outdoors which interests, irritates or simply makes you laugh?
▪ For conservation is part of the lifeblood of all of us who use the outdoors for recreation.
▪ While some people have a natural aptitude for living in the great outdoors, success usually has little to do with intelligence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outdoors

Outdoors \Out"doors`\, adv. Out of the house; out of doors; in the open air; abroad.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outdoors

1817, from outdoor + adverbial genitive. As a noun, "open spaces," recorded from 1857.

Wiktionary
outdoors

adv. Not inside a house or under covered structure; unprotected; in the open air. n. (context often preceded by "the" English) The environment outside of enclosed structures; the natural environment in the open air.

WordNet
outdoors

n. where the air is unconfined; "he wanted to get outdoors a little"; "the concert was held in the open air"; "camping in the open" [syn: out-of-doors, open air, open]

outdoors

adv. outside a building; "in summer we play outside" [syn: outside, out of doors, alfresco] [ant: inside, inside]

Usage examples of "outdoors".

Then along came spring and the barding and wandering season, and everything indoors began looking unspeakably dreary, and everything outdoors began somehow pulling at me, and next thing I knew I was on my way.

Parisians still frequently left their own chill quarters, braving the even colder and danker outdoors, to flock to the theatres and indoor circuses.

The wizard walked slowly, talking to the owl all the way outdoors to what Flax fondly called his garden shed.

And he was sitting outdoors at the Baja Naja, toying with the remains of a perfectly agreeable if unspectacular lunch while discussing a kind of previously unsuspected diabolic state of being with an extensively parasitized visitor from another continent.

There are five deadly male subcultures and they all overlap: the car and machinery culture, the police and military culture, the outdoors and gun culture, the sports and competition culture and the drug and alcohol culture.

Electronic zap traps catch all kinds - good and bad - and for that reason we do not recommend their use outdoors.

Kenneka Road Trekker Supreme, brand new, judging by the paper license plate in the rear window, backed into their driveway and aimed at the great outdoors like a giant fun-seeking missile.

For the remainder of that summer and fall our children became true country sprites, practically living outdoors, and Trixy reveled in chasing squirrels, rabbits, and birds.

It fell on an evening of blizzard, when everyone was confined to the hall and Joscelin came in shivering from the outdoors with an armload of wood for the cookstove.

Joscelin came in shivering from the outdoors with an armload of wood for the cookstove.

The blackflies that descended in thick clouds upon anything that moved had died down enough to venture outdoors.

The children were already outdoors and Cyl and I got a cup of coffee and went out to survey the damage more closely.

Nothing but the dull, plopping footfalls of a mule leaving the hayrack and passing Longarm on its way outdoors.

It was outdoors, and had steel targets, a set just like those at the FBI Academy, with headplates, circular and roughly the size of a human head.

A basically levelheaded soul, Melena knew how very perilous the outdoors became after dark.