field trip

American  

noun

• field trips
  plural

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.

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field trip British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• field trips
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of field trip

First recorded in 1955–60

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Example Sentences

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field trip

These included a field trip to Hormuz that gained a lot of traction and a futuristic look at what AI might mean in practice.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2026

Among those attending was Sebastian Dufour, an independent consultant for the Alderney Wildlife Trust, who joined a field trip to Lihou Island exploring its ecology and archaeology.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

They sneaked the watch into their son’s backpack because electronic devices weren’t allowed on the field trip.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026

Between blocks of talks, attendees partake in activities from the glacier show-and-tell to an iNaturalist BioBlitz in Stanley Park to a field trip to the local Renaissance faire.

From Slate ● May 8, 2026

We talk about other things, like the first-grade field trip we made to the Smithsonian Museum, when I got so scared of the life-size dinosaurs that I cried in the bathroom.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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