field daynoun [ C ]
uk/ˈfiːld ˌdeɪ/us/ˈfiːld ˌdeɪ/US a special day of organized sports or other outside activities for students
a day when military training takes place in an open area
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Classes & courses
- access course
- advanced
- classwork
- correspondence course
- coursework
- extension
- homework
- interdisciplinary
- introduction
- introductory course
- lecture
- lesson
- module
- practical
- reception
- role play
- sandwich course
- schoolwork
- seminar
- summer school
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Examples from literature
- And by now the School had begun to suspect that the field days were conducted mainly to satisfy Rogers's inordinate conceit.
- But my running, on which I prided myself most—I entered for the two-mile, one field day, and won only third place.
- Having gained intelligence of an approaching field day, we prepared a strong solution of gum, with which we varnished the bottom of a leather chair upon which he sat in the school.
Idiom(s)
have a field day