Outing | Mean of outing in English Dictionary

/ˈaʊtɪŋ/

• Noun
• a brief trip that people take for fun usually as a group
1. We went on a backpacking outing.
2. a family/school outing
3. She took the children on an outing to the zoo.
• a time when an athlete (such as a baseball pitcher) competes in a game or contest
1. The pitcher has struggled in his last three outings. [=the last three times he has pitched in a game]
2. He had a good/bad outing. [=he played well/poorly]
• an act of telling the public that a person is homosexual when that person does not want the public to know
1. the outing of a famous actor by gay activists

• an act of telling people that a person has a certain job, identity, etc., that was supposed to be kept secret
1. the outing of a secret agent