noun
- competitive tests or auditions to select people for a team, role, or position
Usage: plural form
Examples
- Basketball tryouts are held next week.
- She practiced for months before the cheerleading tryouts.
- Only twenty students made it through the first round of tryouts.
- The coach announced that tryouts would begin at 3 PM.
- He was nervous about the theater tryouts for the lead role.
- Tryouts for the debate team require a prepared speech.
- The soccer tryouts attracted over fifty hopeful players.