Definition of "field day" in English

Noun

1. A day for maneuvers and tactical exercises in the field (across the landscape).

2. A school day for athletic events.

3. A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.

4. A great time or a great deal to do; a period of bustling activity.

   • They went to the park and had a field day playing on the swings.

5. A great time or a great deal to do, at somebody else's expense.

   • The reporters will have a field day with a comment like that.
   • The scandal was a field day for the press.

6. A day on which there is top-to-bottom all-hands cleaning.