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
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Between filming, the kids would mess around and explore the soundstages, playing capture the flag and hide-and-seek in the famed Chamber of Secrets and other notable locations on set.
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Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 17 May 2025
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
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Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 17 May 2025
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
See All Example Sentences for capture the flag
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