outingPronunciation: /ˈaʊtɪŋ/Translate outing | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of outing noun 1a trip taken for pleasure, especially one lasting a day or less:a family outing to Weston-super-Mare a brief journey from home:her daily outing to the shops informal an appearance in something, especially a sporting event or film:Madonna’s first screen outing in three years 2 [mass noun] the practice of revealing the homosexuality of a prominent person: the outing of gays by the pressOrigin: late Middle English (in the sense 'the action of going out or of expelling'): from the verb out + -ing1outing in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of outing in the US English dictionary