noun
- a test of someone’s ability or skill to determine if they qualify for a team, role, or position
Examples
- She practiced for weeks before the basketball tryout.
- The theater held tryouts for the lead role in the school play.
- Only twenty students made it past the first round of tryouts.
- He was nervous about his tryout for the debate team.
- The coach scheduled tryouts for next Tuesday after school.
- Many talented singers came to the choir tryouts.
- She didn’t make the team despite a strong tryout performance.