scavenger hunt

noun

: a game in which players try to acquire without buying specified items within a time limit

Examples of scavenger hunt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Gail Borden Public Library District’s South Elgin branch, closed since August 2024 for renovation and expansion, reopens Saturday in grand fashion, with live music, giveaways, a scavenger hunt and other activities planned. —Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2025

Celebrate Juneteenth 2025 The Museum will honor Juneteenth with activities including a gallery scavenger hunt, dance performances by Edge School of the Arts and music by The Entrfied Band. —Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 June 2025

Businesses throughout La Jolla’s Village will be stops along the scavenger hunt route, and pet rescue organizations will be onsite. —La Jolla Light, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 June 2025

Follow the Mermaid Tale Trail, a public art scavenger hunt, to find more than 30 mermaid statues painted by Florida artists. —Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 8 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for scavenger hunt

• affront
• confront
• exeunt
• forefront
• lakefront
• manhunt
• sederunt
• battlefront
• oceanfront
• riverfront
• waterfront
• blunt

Kids Definition

scavenger hunt

noun

: a party contest in which players are sent out usually in pairs to obtain without buying unusual objects within a fixed length of time