What is dating exactly? What do you consider a date?

If you go to lunch most of the with a specific co-worker, and their the opposite sex, is that considered a lunch date? What if your company has 2 free tickets to a ball game. You and a female co-worker want to go, would you consider that a date. Do you have to be interested in the person, to be considered a date? Do you have to spend your money on the other person, to be considered a date? What if the other person tells you to meet them a club, would that be considered a date? What is dating exactly, what does it entails? Or is it just someone to have fun with. Serious Opinions only please?

What is dating exactly? What do you consider a date?
anything that involves you and the other person to be out of your routines, together in some way, getting to know eachother a bit better and interacting a lot.





forget stereotypes, being together increases the probability of making a relationship of some sort occur.





The "traditional" date is much less practical, in it two people are placed knowingly in a situation that makes both feel very awkward. So awkward in fact, that terms such as "ice breakers" were invented to describe statements or actions one can take to make the rest of the situation come out a bit more fluently.





Not to mention how impractical it is to watch a movie, since u have no time to talk etc. A date is what you make out of it, try to make each count.
Reply:The actual term "date" would mean to set aside time and meet someone at a specific time of day and day; thus, yielding the word date. This is because you named a day (date) on the calendar to be with someone. All of the above described scenarios would be considered dates based on this standardized definition





Now the term date as we traditionally associate is usually intended for the express intent to get to know someone in the hopes of a more intimate relationship.





Intimacy could be as simple get to know you more than the passing acquaintance to as far as sexual relations for the possibility of long-term Therefore, not all could be necessarily dates of this particular nature as only you would know your intent and purposes for setting aside the time





Dating for the purpose of sexual intimacy or long-term commitment should not be over anticipated. Dating is for the sole purpose of getting to know someone long enough to determine if you want another date after that one. It by no means states you are declaring a wedding date. This is a get to know you process. With each subsequent date possibly yielding anotehr one after that one. Then you may eventually determine to make it a more permanent commitment via marriage.
Reply:No none of these are really considered a date, but in some circumstances i guess they could be. a date is when a guy tells a girl (or girl tells guy) that they like each other. So first its established that theres a mutual attraction. if the person asks you out and u say yes, then u are going out. Once you and the person actually go out alone somewhere, movie, dinner, etc, then its a date