field trip

noun

1. a trip by students to gain firsthand knowledge away from the classroom, as to a museum, factory, geological area, or environment of certain plants and animals.

2. a trip by a scholar or researcher to gather data firsthand, as to a geological, archaeological, anthropological, or other site.

field trip

noun

1. an expedition, as by a group of students or research workers, to study something at first hand

Word History and Origins

Origin of field trip¹

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

Students learn on the job, preparing food for the animals, feeding them, weighing them and even putting on demonstrations for children visiting on school field trips.

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"From late October to early November, there will be no unification ministry-operated special field trips to Panmunjom," Seoul's unification ministry, which handles fraught relations with the North, said in a statement sent to AFP.

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The world's finance ministers on their field trip to Washington have had to assume the world economy will muddle through this.

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That interest is clear as Dyer takes in the humdrum slice-of-life shuffling about at a yawn’s pace from the waiting area on our recent field trip.

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One morning, Little-Siebold invited me to join his students for a field trip.

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