field trip

1. 1.

   a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination

   Broaderexcursion

Questions about field trip

What does field trip mean?

field trip means "a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination".

Is field trip a common word?

field trip 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.