field day

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Recent Examples of field day And if the fight in the Jets is anything like last week, that means Fields is in for a field day (what! Gladys Louise Tyler, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025 The Omaha Storm Chasers — the Royals’ Triple-A affiliate — had an offensive field day in their road game against the Columbus Clippers. Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 24 Aug. 2025 Those who think Boone's even-keel attitude hurts the club were having a field day during the losing streak. Jackson Roberts, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Aug. 2025 The five-day lineup includes a beach day, a community field day, a wellness gathering and dance parties. Oumou Fofana, Essence, 11 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for field day
Recent Examples of Synonyms for field day
Noun
  • Young girls and women wore petticoats and poofy skirts, while the boys and men donned cuffed jeans for the movie outings.
    Uwa Ede-Osifo, Dallas Morning News, 14 Feb. 2026
  • The conference returned for the sixth time to Brooklyn's Digital Greenhouse during its October 2025 outing, up by 2,000 festivalgoers from the previous year.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 14 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Skeptics wonder if the true intention is to undermine efforts to move away from Confederate associations, an issue that has long split people who favor preserving an aspect of southern heritage and those who want slavery-supporting revels stripped of valor.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 28 July 2025
  • So the couple also decided to give Huckleberry an important role in their gender revel.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Noun
  • Student protests have long been a pillar of anti-Maduro opposition, but the last time the democratic movement ventured out in the open was in January 2025.
    Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026
  • My worst fear was having an ending that didn’t feel like an ending, that left too much out in the open.
    Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Newsom publicly mulled a counter challenge in the form of Proposition 50, but initially presented it as a lark.
    Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 30 Dec. 2025
  • The Witches of WeHo signed up for the show as a lark and maybe to break into the entertainment industry.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 3 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • In recent years, the ice was not thick enough to safely support the weight of ATVs, but on the day of this year’s derby, anglers were able to drive their vehicles and grill on the ice like the event was one big tailgate party.
    Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Tottenham’s next game is a home north London derby against arch-rivals and Premier League leaders Arsenal.
    Jay Harris, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • His shakshuka takes the tomato-and-pepper mold and spins it into a gambol through fields of celery and coriander seeds, ground chipotles and sweet paprika.
    Scott Hocker, theweek, 26 Nov. 2024
  • In the winning first moments of the show, Mills gambols on as the Narrator, wielding a paint palette and, instead of a brush, a tuft of rainbow-colored gauze.
    Celia Wren, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • Running a gymkhana in the 600SL would be like asking Her Majesty to run a boot-camp obstacle course.
    Frank Markus, Car and Driver, 2 Jan. 2023
  • Veronica Duncan knew at once what to look for in a pony or a horse, after all those gymkhanas and point-to-points.
    The Economist, The Economist, 12 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • Purists should go into it expecting not a faithful adaptation, but a romp best enjoyed as romantasy fanfic.
    Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Now McGee, too, is back with a crime drama—one bound to earn comparisons to Sharon Horgan’s post-Catastrophe murder romp, Bad Sisters.
    Judy Berman, Time, 13 Feb. 2026

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“Field day.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/field%20day. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.

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