spring training

noun

US

: the time in the spring when baseball teams prepare for the regular season by playing practice games

Examples of spring training in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Birdsong entered spring training fighting for a spot on the Opening Day roster, but fell out of the competition early due to poor performance. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 3 July 2026

Because go to spring training, go to the first month of the year, go to a couple of months in. — Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026

Staff weathering the storm The Cubs are more than halfway through the season and playing around a 90-win pace, yet their clubhouse often looks like a scene out of spring training, with new names, unfamiliar faces, and players coming and going. — Patrick Mooney, New York Times, 1 July 2026

This was a main reason for the 32-game work stoppage in 1990, when fortunately no games were missed but spring training started late. — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Rhymes for spring training

• abstaining
• attaining
• campaigning
• complaining
• constraining
• containing
• detaining
• disdaining
• entraining
• explaining
• maintaining
• obtaining