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spring training

spring training

34 3.0
Practice and games in spring for baseball teams before the regular season starts
  • noun
  • /sprɪŋ ˈtreɪnɪŋ/
  • US
: pretemporada
  • Florida Southern usually plays the Tigers and the Baltimore Orioles in spring training games.

I trained my ass off, went to spring training in in Portugal with sporting, ended up making the team staying there.

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Examples

  • The team has scheduled several exhibition games during spring training to evaluate the new players.

  • Getting released three days before Spring Training ends is just about the worst possible time.

    Blog text (22)

  • If you are going into the manager's office, especially during Spring Training, then something is wrong.

    Blog text (22)

  • Spring training begins in two weeks.

    Major League (1989)

  • Fujikawa got a tour of Chase Field and the spring training facilities on Thursday.

    Blog text (21)

  • Konerko is expected to make a full recovery by the beginning of spring training.

    Blog text (2)

  • For many years, Florida has been the site of spring-training camps for major-league baseball teams.

    Academic text (1990)

  • Every year, the players look forward to spring training, as it marks the start of a new baseball season.

  • As the major league teams prepare, fans eagerly anticipate the excitement of spring training in Florida and Arizona.

Synonyms

preseason
vsspring training
74 3.0

A time before the official sports season for practice and training

is the specific spring practice period mainly used by professional baseball teams

Surface Forms

spring training singular
spring trainings plural

Morphology

spring + train

The meaning 'preseason practice in the spring' is directly and compositionally derived from 'spring' (the season) + 'training' (practice), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the phrase. Although it has a cultural association with baseball, the literal combination makes the sense transparent and easily comprehensible.

Etymology

Spring training began as a simple idea: teams would go to warm places in spring to do their training before the regular season. So today spring training means 'preseason practice' where players get ready for the games.