A portable outdoor flooring apparatus for creating a stable floor outdoors includes a flooring section having a first panel and a second panel. A hinge couples together the first panel and the second panel. Each of the first and second panels have a top side, a bottom side, and a peripheral wall. The top side of the first panel is coplanar with the top side of the second panel when the first and second panels are in a deployed condition. Each of the first and second panels also have interior edges that are next to each other. The first panel and the second panel can pivot around the interior edges until the bottom sides are abutting one another. A connecting system couples the flooring section with a second flooring section when the first and second panels are in the deployed condition.

Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for removably deploying a floor assembly from a compacted state to a deployed state by varying tensioning forces to removably interconnected individual floor segments.

A floor panel for forming a floor covering includes coupling parts on at least one pair of opposite arranged to allow that two of such floor panels can be joined by means of a downward movement (M) of one floor panel in respect to the other floor panel. The coupling parts allow a locking in a first direction perpendicular to the plane of the floor panels as well as in a second direction perpendicular to the respective edge and in the plane of the floor panels. A longitudinal recess located on at least one of the edges is present underneath the upper surface with a locking element. The shape and/or the position of the recess and/or the configuration of the coupling parts is such that deformations are avoided.