[Vocabulary] picnic or trip ?

[nado92]

we sometimes take a(trip - picnic -journey -travel)on the sea when we go to the beach.
what to choose?
I will choose voyage.But it is not here.
Can we choose picnic as it may means a meal?
Thanks in advance

 

[emsr2d2]

we sometimes take a(trip - picnic -journey -travel)on the sea when we go to the beach.
what to choose?
I will choose voyage.But it is not here.
Can we choose picnic as it may means a meal?
Thanks in advance

I can see your confusion! To me, none of them are perfect. However:

Take a picnic on the sea - not possible - picnics are usually on the ground.
Take a journey on the sea - bad English - you make a journey.
Take a travel - no, you simply travel

Which only leaves "we take a trip on the sea when we go to the beach". Now that doesn't sound like a very good sentence to me either, but if it is the only choice you have after discounting the others.......!!!
I suppose it means that sometimes when they go to the beach, they also go on a short sailing trip, or rent a boat.

 

[nado92]

I agree with you.
but what about voyage?

 

[emsr2d2]

I agree with you.
but what about voyage?

A voyage suggests a longer trip, which finishes somewhere different from where it started.

For instance, if you decide to go on a cruise from England to America, you could say you were going on a long voyage.

In the example you quoted, it suggests that the people concerned are at the beach and want to go on a boat for a short time, probably starting at the beach and then coming back there later. I don't think that voyage really fits that scenario.

 

[nado92]

Thanks for your great effort