Definition of "field-sports" [field-sports]

• Recreations of the field; outdoor sports, particularly hunting and athletic games.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "I began to discover that the country would not at all suit me; for I had relinquished field-sports, and felt no inclination whatever to farming, the ordinary vocation of country gentlemen."
• "A love of the NATALE SOLUM, if Swift be right in translating these words, “family estate,” began to awaken in my bosom — the recollections of my own youth adding little to it, save what was connected with field-sports."
• "Her younger brother, at an age when trifles chiefly occupied his mind, made her the confidante of all his pleasures and anxieties, his success in field-sports, and his quarrels with his tutor and instructors."