scavenger hunt

noun

: a game in which players try to acquire without buying specified items within a time limit

Examples of scavenger hunt in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In a bonus clip for their New Heights podcast, the Kelce brothers answered viewers' questions about everything from Kelce scavenger hunts to parenting. —Kayla Grant, People.com, 30 Apr. 2025

Carroll Community College’s 3rd annual Family Fun Fest Sunday, featured inflatables, drone simulations, free children’s books, as well as face painting, tie-dyeing t-shirts, rock painting, sidewalk chalk art, sunflower seed planting, a scavenger hunt and a host of other activities. —Carroll County Times, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2025

Visitors can create a terrarium, participate in an outdoor scavenger hunt, learn sustainable gardening tips and explore an eco-friendly tiny home. —Patrick Connolly, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025

The special activities include an egg hunt, scavenger hunt, a dance party an easter storytime and more. —San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Mar. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1936, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for scavenger hunt

• affront
• confront
• exeunt
• forefront
• lakefront
• manhunt
• sederunt
• battlefront
• oceanfront
• riverfront
• waterfront
• blunt

Kids Definition

scavenger hunt

noun

: a party contest in which players are sent out usually in pairs to obtain without buying unusual objects within a fixed length of time