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apple picking
A leisure activity of going to an orchard to pick and eat apples, popular as an autumn outing.
Formed from りんご (apple) + 狩り (gathering, picking), with rendaku making it がり. The suffix 狩り is used for going out to gather or pick produce, as in ぶどう狩り (grape picking) and いちご狩り (strawberry picking).
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Similar words
- 潮干狩り: clam digging — another 狩り outing
- ぶどう狩り: grape picking — a parallel fruit-picking activity