: an artificial hazard on a golf course consisting of a depression containing sand
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The question is whether new Dolphins GM Jon-Eric Sullivan will avoid the sand traps that often ensnared Grier and eventually left him on the unemployment line.—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026 The $30 million, 28-story towers contained 3,000 rooms, an 18-hole rooftop miniature golf course complete with sand traps and its own hospital.—Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 17 Mar. 2026 There’s no tire barriers or sand traps to go off in like on the track.—Eric D. Lawrence, Freep.com, 13 Feb. 2026 The Virgin Clubhouse at Heathrow used to have a hydrotherapy, bath-steam, room-tanning, booth-ski simulator, and a four-hole putting green with a sand trap.—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sand trap