driving range
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3.0
- noun
- /ˈdraɪvɪŋ reɪndʒ/
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campo de prácticas
- The driving range offers various marked distances for golfers to improve their accuracy and distance.
- golf driving range
- balls at the driving range
- golfers on the driving range
Examples
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I watch him for a moment, then I watch the latest crop of young men smashing balls out across the driving range.
Fiction book (2001) -
"I think I'll go to the driving range and hit some balls," he says.
Fiction book (1996) -
When he was 18 months old, his dad started taking him to the driving range.
Blog text (21) -
And I went to the driving range three days in a row.
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That is why a driving range is a perfect place for a day of fun and gentle competition with colleagues.
Blog text (5) -
The next morning, he asked to be taken to a driving range where he found a way to balance on his right leg to hit balls.
Blog text (7) -
My husband is a pretty awesome golfer, and I'm always itching to go out to the driving range with him.
Blog text (19) -
Several yards away, behind a chain-link fence, golfers knock balls into the dark on a dimly lighted driving range.
Fiction book (2001) -
At the driving range, Gingrich was still hitting the white objects, striking the blows mechanically: downswing, strike, downswing, crack, downswing, bang!
Fiction book (2001) -
Many golfers prefer to practice their swings at the driving range before hitting the course.
Synonyms
1
3.0
An area where golfers hit balls to improve their swing
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2.7
A place where people practice hitting golf balls over long distances
Surface Forms
Morphology
The provided constituent senses—'driving' as a golf stroke and 'range' as a practice facility—combine to yield the golf-centred meaning (a place to practice drives), not the vehicle sense of 'maximum distance.' The vehicular meaning relies on different senses ('drive/driving' = operating a vehicle; 'range' = distance/extent), so a B1 learner knowing the given constituent meanings would not reliably derive the MWE's car-related meaning.
Etymology
The term driving range comes from golf: players practice long shots called drives on an open range with markers for distance, so the phrase means 'a place to practice hitting golf balls far'.