field trip
noun
: a visit (as to a factory, farm, or museum) made (as by students and a teacher) for purposes of firsthand observation
Examples of field trip in a Sentence
We took a class field trip to the power plant.
We went on a field trip.
Recent Examples on the Web
Programming includes specialty dinners, educational offerings, school field trips and field demonstrations.
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Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
In the fall of 2021, Leonardi chaperoned an elementary school field trip to a local bar and grill that happened to be gay-owned.
—Frank Langfitt, NPR, 11 July 2025
Millennials may remember Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen’s colorful Magic School Bus books, which offered children make-believe field trips to hard-to-reach places: the Milky Way Galaxy, the bottom of Earth’s oceans, and the organs of the human body, just to name a few.
—Jessica George, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2025
So, although an elementary school with declining enrollment is struggling to hold on to all of its teachers, funding for after-school programs and field trips is enormously expanded compared with a decade ago.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
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Penny E Schwartz, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
In the fall of 2021, Leonardi chaperoned an elementary school field trip to a local bar and grill that happened to be gay-owned.
—Frank Langfitt, NPR, 11 July 2025
Millennials may remember Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen’s colorful Magic School Bus books, which offered children make-believe field trips to hard-to-reach places: the Milky Way Galaxy, the bottom of Earth’s oceans, and the organs of the human body, just to name a few.
—Jessica George, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2025
So, although an elementary school with declining enrollment is struggling to hold on to all of its teachers, funding for after-school programs and field trips is enormously expanded compared with a decade ago.
—Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for field trip
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“Field trip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/field%20trip. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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