field event

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   a competition that takes place on a field rather than on a running track

   Broadermatch

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   Part oftrack meet

Questions about field event

What does field event mean?

field event means "a competition that takes place on a field rather than on a running track".

Is field event a common word?

field event is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.