out of doors
If your cactus has been outdoors during the summer, move it into the garage or house when overnight temperatures drop below 65°F.
The party is going to be outdoors, but we have permission to use the community hall if it rains.
We hung the washing up outdoors in the fresh air.
I don't like you hanging around outdoors with your friends - why don't you invite them in?
He's very tanned because he works outdoors in all weathers.

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outdoors | American Dictionary

outdoors
adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˌɑʊtˈdɔrz, -ˈdoʊrz/(alsoout of doors)
out in the air, not in a building:
We’ll eat outdoors.
The kids are playing outdoors.
outdoors
noun
us/ˌɑʊtˈdɔrz, -ˈdoʊrz/(alsoout-of-doors)
 the outdoors
a place outside, away from buildings, where you can experience nature:
Mike enjoys the outdoors.

Examples of outdoors

outdoors
Each site, whether outdoors or indoors, has differing practicalities of either restricting or encouraging access.
Seeds are conditionally dormant at maturity, and undergo annual non-dormancy/conditional dormancy cycles when buried outdoors.
Both learning and popular culture had been oriented to the outside, and the continuities of the indoors and outdoors.
Finally, securing access to stairs and the outdoors with locks and gates should be done to prevent wandering of walking infants.
All the occupational injuries reported were sustained outdoors by outdoor workers and yet very few had been previously immunized.
Many remain active outdoors until this becomes impossible.
Performance was outdoors in the gallery courtyard, under a full moon.
While one of the timed walks went into an underground station and through a subway, the second remained outdoors, to create an acoustic disjunction.
Most of the eggs were deposited in the bark of the pine pieces, both indoors and outdoors (fig. 6).
This flexibility in feeding preference may promote adaptation to the more extreme temperatures encountered outdoors.
If the child has lost his appetite, they are told to go outdoors to get it back!
Regular physical exercise, preferable outdoors, can prevent deterioration of bone density.
Plates were placed outdoors on an unshaded, level area adjacent to a pasture with cattle.
Alternatively, some career couriers are university-educated and highly employable but choose courier work for its flexibility, casual atmosphere and physical or outdoors nature.
Having conducted the experiment outdoors in the monkeys' semi-natural home environment could potentially have introduced some factors influencing the animals' accuracy.
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