field trip
noun
: a visit (as to a factory, farm, or museum) made (as by students and a teacher) for purposes of firsthand observation
Examples of field trip in a Sentence
We took a class field trip to the power plant.
We went on a field trip.
Recent Examples on the Web
The survivor and his family allege that while on a camp field trip to the swimming pool at James Bridger Middle School in Independence, a juvenile identified as A.R. cornered the boy in a bathroom and sodomized him, according to court documents.
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2024
Advertisement Lisa Fitch of Los Angeles first visited Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park — site of the first California town founded, financed and governed by African Americans — on a neighborhood group field trip.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
But one of his main pedagogical devices is still the field trip.
—Joseph Bernstein Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 3 June 2024
The Friday afternoon field trip was the result of Northglenn High School geology teacher Kent Hups stumbling across dinosaur fossils about three years ago while out scouting.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 1 June 2024
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Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2024
Advertisement Lisa Fitch of Los Angeles first visited Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park — site of the first California town founded, financed and governed by African Americans — on a neighborhood group field trip.
—Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
But one of his main pedagogical devices is still the field trip.
—Joseph Bernstein Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Devin Murphy, New York Times, 3 June 2024
The Friday afternoon field trip was the result of Northglenn High School geology teacher Kent Hups stumbling across dinosaur fossils about three years ago while out scouting.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 1 June 2024
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“Field trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20trip. Accessed 12 Jun. 2024.
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