Field Day

Definition: Field Day

Field Day

Noun

1. (military) a day for military exercises and display.

2. A day for outdoor athletic competition.

3. A time of unusual pleasure and success.

4. A day devoted to an outdoor social gathering.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Field Day

Amusement

Festivity, merrymaking; party; (social gathering); blowout, hullabaloo, hoedown, bat, bum, bust, clambake, donation party, fish fry, jamboree, kantikoy, nautch, randy, squantum, tear, Turnerfest, yule log; fete, festival, gala, ridotto; revels, revelry, reveling; carnival, brawl, saturnalia, high jinks; feast, banquet; (food); regale, symposium, wassail; carouse, carousal; jollification, junket, wake, Irish wake, picnic, fete champetre, regatta, field day; treat.

Contention

Competition, rivalry; corrivalry, corrivalship, agonism, concours, match, race, horse racing, heat, steeple chase, handicap; regatta; field day; sham fight, Derby day; turf, sporting, bullfight, tauromachy, gymkhana; boat race, torpids.

Ostentation

Demonstration, flying colors; tomfoolery; flourish of trumpets; (celebration); pageant, pageantry; spectacle, exhibition, exposition, procession; turn out, set out; grand function; f_te, gala, field day, review, march past, promenade, insubstantial pageant.

The Field Day (1963)

Bugville Field Day (1925)

Actors' Fund Field Day (1910)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day Field Day (Junie B. Jones 16, paper) (reference)

• Junie B. Jones Collection Books: Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentine, Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day, Junie B Jones Has a Peep in Her p [UNABRIDGED] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

High jump, U.S. Naval Academy field day. Credit: Library of Congress.

Putting the shot, U.S. Naval Academy field day. Credit: Library of Congress.

Free lunch at farmers field day, U.S. Dry Land Experiment Station, Akron, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

FSA (Farm Security Administration) county supervisor at farmers field day at United States Dry Land Experiment Station, Akron, Colorado. Credit: Library of Congress.

Race at the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Refreshment stand at the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Stand at the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Basketball game at the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

At the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Baseball game at the annual field day of the FSA (Farm Security Administration) farmworkers community, Yuma, Arizona. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

ditë stërvitjeje, ditë e shënuar (day, field-night). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يوم التدريب, ‏مناورات (drilling), ‏تمارين. (various references)

Bulgarian 

маневри (engineering, jockeying, maneuvers, manoeuvres), ден на атлетически състезания, ден пълен със събития. (various references)

Czech

slavnostní den (fete day). (various references)

French

jour d'exercice, jour d'entraînement, jour de sport, jour de grandes man�"uvres, grand jour. (various references)

Greek 

ημέρα γυμνάσιων, ημέρα εορτήσ. (various references)

Hungarian

katonai gyakorlónap. (various references)

Manx

laa mustyr. (various references)

Pig Latin

ieldfay ayday

Romanian

zi plinã de evenimente, zi de mare sãrbãtoare, zi consacratã excursiilor, manevre (rigging). (various references)

Russian 

маневры (field-night), памятный день. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

mogućnost za rad po svojo volji, dan svečanosti. (various references)

Spanish

día de maniobras. (various references)

Swedish

friluftsdag, manöverdag, idrottsdag (sports day), betydelsefull dag (field-night). (various references)

Thai

ช่วงเวลาแห่งความสุข, วันเล่นกีฬา. (various references)

Turkish

tatbikat günü, spor günü, manevra günü, özel gün (special day, special occasion), çok başarılı bir gün. (various references)

Misspellings

"Field Day" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: fieldday. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fadedly.

-2 letters: afield, deadly, deafly, dialed, failed, fiddle, fiddly, flayed, laddie.

-3 letters: addle, aided, ailed, daily, dedal, deify, delay, edify, faddy, faded, fayed, felid, field, filed, flied, ideal, idled, laded, layed, leady, leafy, yield.

-4 letters: aide, alef, alif, dale, dead, deaf, deal, defi, defy, deil, delf, deli, dial, didy, died, diel, dyad, dyed, eddy.