field sports

pl n

sports carried on in the open countryside, such as hunting, shooting, or fishing

Words nearby field sports

field penny-cress, field post office, field ration, field spaniel, field sparrow, field sports, field stop, field strength, field study, field theory, field tile

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Examples from the Web for field sports

Thus, field-sports are not altogether confined to gentlemen.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.|Various
Though in his youth he sometimes hunted, he was neither fond of field-sports nor of the athletic exercises of chivalry.
History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain.|William H. Prescott
Field-sports by land and water furnish his table with many delicacies.
Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829.|Hermann Pckler-Muskau
In the same way Sir Walter Scott counterbalanced the effects of sedentary occupation by his hearty enjoyment of field-sports.
The Intellectual Life|=Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Even sceptical critics tell us that he was fond of field-sports; and of his familiar knowledge of them there can be no question.
Oxford Lectures on Poetry|Andrew Cecil Bradley