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

Right-handed reliever Joel Peguero (left hamstring strain) will be shut down for the rest of the year due to a recurring hamstring strain that’s bothered him since spring training. — Justice Delos Santos, Mercury News, 22 Aug. 2026

The Padres spring training complex, which operates as a year-round facility for the organization, is located in Peoria. — Laura Turbay, Chicago Tribune, 18 Aug. 2026

Conversely, players who aren’t on the 40-man roster can have that type of contact this winter — including working with coaches — and also can attend minor-league spring training and play in minor-league games next season. — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Aug. 2026

The Red Sox, who’d won a wild card in an up-and-down season last year, had come out of spring training expected to contend for a playoff spot, but by the time Cora was fired the team had dropped seven games below five hundred. — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for spring training

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