In the US - this is not dating. Dates are considered something you do with someone you're not in a committed relationship with. What we define as dates are usua

In the US - this is not dating. Dates are considered something you do with someone you're not in a committed relationship with. What we define as dates are usually when two "single" people go out somewhere together with the explicit intention of romantic/sexual progression and those people call it a date. If you didn't call it a date - it's probably not a date. A date has pressure and naming. There's also an aspect of a date being something where it's like an experiment - if it goes well then you keep going. If it doesn't go well then you leave. Once you're in a committed relationship with someone - going out with intention of romantic/sexual progression is not a date anymore. It's just "going out for the night", etc. People will have "date night" and what not to fake dates because one of the partners want to feel hot and single again but there's nothing real about them because there's no chance that they'll be like, "Yeah, it's not me - it's actually you. Ghosting now." Whereas that's a real possibility on a real date.