airing

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: air=ing

CIDE DICTIONARY

airing, n. 

•  A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.  [1913 Webster]
•  An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

airing, n.
1 exposure to fresh air, esp. for exercise or an excursion.
2 exposure (of laundry etc.) to warm air.
3 public expression of an opinion etc. (the idea will get an airing at tomorrow's meeting).

THESAURUS

airing

Sunday drive, aerage, aeration, air conditioning, air cooling, amble, analysis, bandying, book, broadcast, broadcasting, bruiting, bruiting about, buzz session, canvassing, circulation, colloquium, conference, consideration, constitutional, cross-ventilation, debate, debating, deliberation, dialectic, dialogue, diffusion, discussion, display, dissemination, drive, evulgation, examination, exchange of views, forced march, forum, hike, investigation, issuance, issue, jaunt, joint discussion, joyride, lift, logical analysis, logical discussion, march, mush, open discussion, open forum, oxygenation, oxygenization, panel discussion, parade, perflation, periodical, peripatetic journey, peripateticism, pickup, printing, promenade, promulgation, propagation, publication, publishing, ramble, rap, rap session, refreshment, review, ride, saunter, schlep, seminar, spin, spread, spreading, spreading abroad, stretch, stroll, study, symposium, telecasting, town meeting, traipse, tramp, treatment, trudge, turn, ventilation, walk, walking tour, whirl

ROGET THESAURUS

airing

Journey

N journey, travel, traveling, wayfaring, campaigning, journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation, noctambulation, noctambulism, somnambulism, outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt, equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie, basophobia, roving, vagrancy, pererration, marching and countermarching, nomadism, vagabondism, vagabondage, hoboism, gadding, flit, flitting, migration, emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration, wanderlust, plan, itinerary, guide, handbook, guidebook, road book, Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray, map, road map, transportation guide, subway map, procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column, vehicle, automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive, legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters, traveler, depot, railway station, station, traveling, ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic, circumforanean, circumforaneous, noctivagrant, mundivagrant, locomotive, wayfaring, wayworn, travel-stained, on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare, by the Marrowbone stage: in transitu, en route, Int, come along!.