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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outing
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
previous
▪ But each time they were pegged back by United substitute Ward, who had not scored in 21 previous outings this season.
▪ Morgan, whose son had been a Cowboy, had allowed his property to be used for previous Cowboys outings.
■ NOUN
family
▪ Three couples celebrating a happy family outing.
▪ And, for the first time in my life, we had family outings.
▪ This reserve is particularly pleasant for family outings as it incorporates a picnic area.
▪ His rapport with children makes his show the perfect family outing.
▪ It's a county-by-county cornucopia of ideas for family outings.
▪ A family outing in the four-wheel-drive vehicle.
school
▪ Dressed however in striking green riding outfits and cowboy-like felt hats, these boys and girls are no school outing participants.
▪ A Germantown resident, he was on a school outing with a daughter in Gettysburg when he collapsed.
▪ He spotted it with two teenagers inside while meeting children from a school outing.
▪ On a school outing he, and some other pupils, were involved in shoplifting.
▪ The Ice Bowl is the perfect venue for that extra special school outing or end of term trip.
▪ I had my first glimpse of the sea on a Sunday School outing to Redcar when I was about ten.
▪ June is apparently the worst month, because of children's school outings.
▪ Inside, there are notice boards nailed to the panelling, with details of school outings, charity events, term activities.
■ VERB
go
▪ Perhaps you are going on an outing or meeting a friend.
▪ And every Wednesday you go on a dinner outing.
▪ She'd been going on about the outings, never getting away, hadn't she?
▪ I looked forward to going to work because it felt more like going on an outing.
▪ Every protestation that she should go on this outing was clearly a plea for her to stay and resist the invitation.
▪ The passage is about a schoolboy who goes on an outing and drops his bag out of the window of a railway carriage.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a Girl Scout outing in the mountains
▪ a school outing to the ballet
▪ Mrs Pollack took her class on an outing to the local museum.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As children, she and her sister Ruth had reckoned the first outing to pick primroses as the true herald of spring.
▪ Natalia patted Mephistopheles, who wondered what had so revolutionised his life with so many outings.
▪ Neither law firm outings nor public protests and rallies were quite his style, in any case.
▪ Outing: The first outing for the Heighington Over 50/60 club will depart on April 14.
▪ The Ice Bowl is the perfect venue for that extra special school outing or end of term trip.
▪ This is like a Sunday-school outing.
▪ We found other times to take him for a stroll without carving into her bakery outing.
▪ Winter treat Planning a pre-Christmas outing for the children?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Outing

Outing \Out"ing\, n.

  1. The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.

  2. A feast given by an apprentice when he is out of his time. [Prov. Eng.]
    --Halliwell.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outing

late 14c., "action of going out;" mid-15c., "act of putting out;" verbal noun from out (v.). Meaning "airing, excursion, pleasure trip" is from 1821.

Wiktionary
outing

n. 1 A pleasure trip or excursion. 2 The practice of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual without that person's consent. 3 An appearance to perform in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc. vb. (present participle of out English)

WordNet
outing
  1. n. a journey taken for pleasure; "many summer excursions to the shore"; "it was merely a pleasure trip"; "after cautious sashays into the field" [syn: excursion, jaunt, junket, pleasure trip, expedition, sashay]

  2. a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering [syn: field day, picnic]

Wikipedia
Outing (disambiguation)

Outing is the act of disclosing a person's sexual orientation without their consent.

Outing may also refer to:

  • Excursion, a trip by a group of people, usually made for leisure, education, or physical purposes
  • Doxing, revealing a person's identity
Outing

Outing is the act of disclosing a homosexual, asexual, bisexual or transgender person's sexual orientation or gender identity without that person's consent. Outing gives rise to issues of privacy, choice, hypocrisy, and harm in addition to sparking debate on what constitutes common good in efforts to combat homophobia and heterosexism. A publicized outing targets prominent figures in a society, for example well-known politicians, accomplished athletes or popular artists. Opponents to LGBT rights movements as well as activists within LGBT communities have used this type of outing as a controversial political campaign or tactic. In an attempt to pre-empt being outed, an LGBT public figure may decide to come out publicly first, although controlling the conditions under which one's LGBT identity is revealed is only one of numerous motives for coming out.

Outing (magazine)

Outing was a late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American magazine covering a variety of sporting activities. It began publication in 1882 as the Wheelman "an illustrated magazine of cycling literature and news" and had four title changes before ceasing publication in 1923.

Samuel McClure edited the "Wheelman" for Colonel Albert Pope, Pope Manufacturing Company for bicycles for two years. Bicycling was the first outdoor sport to seize the Americans. Suddenly bicycling was all the rage.

In 1884 it was called Outing and the Wheelman: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation.

The magazine first published Jack London's novel White Fang in serial form. Frederic Remington submitted commissioned drawings of the Old West.

Usage examples of "outing".

One day, shortly after their return to town in the autumn from the brief summer outing they permitted themselves, the Marches met Margaret Vance.

When Metis did not soon reappear from her room after returning from her outing, they followed her there.

He was pretty confident that Collins was going back home after his preppy little outing on the Potomac, with his swell little boat and undoubtedly admiring little girlfriend.

Sunday outings, to a ham radio club where people sat around and talked about sideboards and superheterodynes and stuff like that.

Together they were planning a joint shopping expedition to the 10th-floor supermarket the following day, like a band of villagers going on an outing to an unpoliced city.

Achen Wuhl twenty years before on an outing that had brought a company of his Trolls in contact with the Warst while the latter were under attack from Mutens.

Willie told us he would be taking us to all the Legacy outings, and he also informed us that we would all have to take part in the Anzac Day march once a year.

A family of five on an outing in an isolated spot by a stream were attacked by bees here.

When they saw the caved-in Berliner Dom in the distance, they were too dispirited to go on and decided to stroll up the Linden instead, the old Sunday outing.

Having learned from the tattle-mongers that he had induced his fat enemy to call at Upper Grosvenor Square, Brummell must make sure the Prince continued his calls by a few more outings with Mrs.

This somatic outing borders on metamorphosis: the glands are like walnuts, and the bird tuberculosis has an almost Ovidian flavor to it, in addition to a scary sense of flight and flux, so that even the dead body in the casket is disturbingly active and on the move, a potent agent of transmission.

When Paez returned home after his outing, he was told that armed men had visited the house and taken away his sword and pistols.

A first-night was being televised at eight, and after that tennis, and she promised herself a long phone call later to Rinka, to fix a day for their outing.

Corinna dismount at the marketplace, and she assured him her outing with Telyn had given her a chance to get used to riding.

On other mornings, she would ride with Winton, who would come for her, leaving her again at her door after their outings.