field event
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- noun
- /fiːld ɪˈvɛnt/
:
evento de campo
- So did his daughter and seventeen other people who attended this field event at Doug and Lois Albin's farm.
- track and field events
Examples
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The annual athletics meet featured various field events, including shot put and discus throw.
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We even hold joint training in field events now, on our soil.
Blog text (15) -
Unlike so many activities, a track and field event does not require an array of expensive equipment.
Academic text (2006) -
Besides, when was the last time you watched a world championship track and field event or the world championship gymnastics finals?
Blog text (20) -
Mexico won overall in track (including first-place finishes in every running event), and Cuba won five of the eight field events.
Academic text (1994) -
Overall, track event athletes were found to use imagery 81.5% of the time, and field event athletes reported use 92.7% of the time.
Academic text (1999) -
The Games were held over the period 11-18 September and included eighteen track-and-field events, tug-of-war, baseball, soccer, tennis, and swimming.
Academic text (1994) -
During the summer Olympics, the crowd cheered loudly for the athletes participating in the field event of javelin throw.
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He trained hard every day to improve his performance in the field event known as the long jump.
Synonyms
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A contest where athletes compete in sports such as running or jumping
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A competition where people or teams compete in sports
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'an athletic competition that takes place on a field' is directly and transparently derivable from combining 'field' (a playing ground) with 'event' (an occurrence or competition); the first noun simply specifies the location/type of the event. This noun–noun compositional pattern is common in English and other languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Field event comes from the simple picture of an event held on the open field instead of on a running track. That's why things like the long jump, javelin, or shot put are called field events — they are 'competitions that take place on the field'.