outingout‧ing /ˈaʊtɪŋ/ ●○○ noun 
a class outing to the balletouting to an outing to the beachon an outing They had gone on an outing to the pool for Robert’s birthday.2[countable, uncountable] when someone publicly says that someone else is homosexual, when that person does not want anyone to know
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- 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.
- 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?
Longman Language Activatora short journey
to visit a beach, an area of countryside, a town etc for pleasure and come back home on the same day: · It's such a lovely day - let's go out for the day and visit the zoo.
a visit to a beach, an area of countryside, a town etc when you go there and come back the same day: · It would be nice to take a day trip to Chicago to do some shopping.
a journey that someone makes each day to work, especially when they live a fairly long way away from their work: · The commute from Kent into London can be horrendous.a 1-hour/20-minute etc commute: · I had no money, two small children, and a 90-minute commute to work each day.
a short journey on which a group of people go to visit a local place of interest, the theatre etc: outing to: · Mrs Pollack took her class on an outing to the local museum.school/church etc outing: · a school outing to the ballet
a short journey arranged so that a group of people can visit a place of interest, especially while they are already on holiday: · The resort also offers daily excursions to nearby towns.excursion to: · One day he took an excursion to the other end of the island for a change of scene.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY a class outing to the ballet They had gone on an outing to the pool for Robert’s birthday.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
1[countable] a short trip that a group of people take for pleasurea family/school etc outing a class outing to the ballet They had gone on an outing to the pool for Robert’s birthday.· 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· 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.
· 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· 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.
a class outing to the balletouting to an outing to the beachon an outing They had gone on an outing to the pool for Robert’s birthday.2[countable, uncountable] when someone publicly says that someone else is homosexual, when that person does not want anyone to know