outing

A pleasure trip or excursion.

• This was a fine day's outing for anybody who had been cooped up in the shops for a few months.

A performance in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.

• The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise.

The act of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual or transgender without that person's consent.

• Advocates for gay and lesbian issues suggest the increase in discharges reflects the hostility of the military towards homosexual soldiers and a growing number of "forced outings" of gay and lesbian troops.

The act of revealing somebody as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.

present participle and gerund of outform-ofgerundparticiple