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Outdoor   /ˈaʊtdˌɔr/   Listen
Outdoor

adjective
1.
Located, suited for, or taking place in the open air.  Synonyms: out-of-door, outside.  "Badminton and other outdoor games" , "A beautiful outdoor setting for the wedding"
2.
Pertaining to or concerning the outdoors or outdoor activities.



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"Outdoor" Quotes from Famous Books



... at length, obtained permission for the little dog to remain as a sort of outdoor pensioner, and fed him with stray bones and cold potatoes, and such things as he could get for him. He also provided him with a little basket to sleep in, the very same which, turned up, afterward served Harry ...
— McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader • William Holmes McGuffey

... happily. "Oh, the doctors say there is nothing miraculous about it. They say all I wanted was the exercise and healthy outdoor life. But I know who really did it," she added, putting her arm about Lucile. "It was you girls—yes it was," she insisted, as they started to protest. "You were the first I can remember—except father, of course—who treated me like a human being and not a curiosity. And, oh ...
— Lucile Triumphant • Elizabeth M. Duffield

... the latter-day representatives of that class; and these canons will not permit him, without blame, to seek contact with nature on other terms. From being an honorable employment handed down from the predatory culture as the highest form of everyday leisure, sports have come to be the only form of outdoor activity that has the full sanction of decorum. Among the proximate incentives to shooting and angling, then, may be the need of recreation and outdoor life. The remoter cause which imposes the necessity of seeking these objects under the ...
— The Theory of the Leisure Class • Thorstein Veblen

... the people in the room, the Comte de Virieu looked as if he lived a more or less outdoor life; his face was tanned, his blue eyes were very bright, and the hands dealing out the cards were well-shaped and muscular. Somehow he looked very different, she could hardly explain how or why, from the men ...
— The Chink in the Armour • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... and later when the moon had risen and the guests danced on the smooth mosaic floor of an outdoor pavilion cunningly fashioned in the semblance of a Greek theater, her eyes were pools of laughter and her repartee was like wine sparkle—for at least she had learned to act with the empty bravery ...
— Destiny • Charles Neville Buck


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