capture the flag

noun

: a game in which players on each of two teams seek to capture the other team's flag and return it to their side without being captured and imprisoned

Examples of capture the flag in a Sentence

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The movie is also set to star Paul Dooley, John Amos and Barry Corbin as a group of veterans who compete in a game of capture the flag for the honor of being the one to raise the flag up the flagpole in their community each morning. —Lori A Bashian Fox News, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2024

To eliminate the first 1,000 people, the contestants participated in challenges like lifting a large boulder on a pulley system and a game of capture the flag. —Moises Mendez Ii, TIME, 13 Aug. 2024

One Thing at a Time, hip-hop couldn’t capture the flag until July, when Lil Uzi Vert’s Pink Tape finally ended the shutout. —Trevor Anderson, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019

Stratego Available at Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Walmart, and Target Stratego is like a Napoleonic version of capture the flag. —Julianne Hilmes Bartlett, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Mar. 2022

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1925, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

capture the flag

noun

: a game in which players on each of two teams seek to capture the other team's flag and return it to their side without being captured and imprisoned