capture the flag
: 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
Recent Examples on the Web
//Other adult recesses feature scavenger hunts, tug-of-war, or capture the flag, all activities that require a little less blood, sweat, and tears than signing up for a softball league.
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Mimi Montgomery, Outside Online, "Grown-Ups Need to Play More. Adult Recess Can Help.," 22 Oct. 2019
//Think capture the flag meets chess meets action sport.
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Darcel Rockett, chicagotribune.com, "Paintball fever arrives with NXL Chicago Open: 'Think capture the flag meets chess meets action sport’," 13 Sep. 2019
//But this year will include not just a mock hospital but also a formal capture the flag hacking competition, and much more extensive hands-on hacking.
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Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, "A Model Hospital Where the Devices Get Hacked—on Purpose," 6 Aug. 2019
//Fred's House was also the congregation site for nighttime capture the flag.
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Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, "Be Our Guest," 9 Sep. 2013
//On this particular Saturday night, guests partook in many of the same activities (minus capture the flag), and the chocolate chip cookies.
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Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, "Be Our Guest," 9 Sep. 2013
//But for the Woolworth clan the farm is synonymous with summer — a place to catch frogs, play capture the flag, and sneak an extra cookie from the cookie jar.
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Georgina Schaeffer, Town & Country, "Be Our Guest," 9 Sep. 2013
//Last week, OpenAI’s bots were playing Dota 2; this week, it’s Quake III, with a team of researchers from Google’s DeepMind subsidiary successfully training agents that can beat humans at a game of capture the flag.
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James Vincent, The Verge, "DeepMind’s AI agents exceed ‘human-level’ gameplay in Quake III," 4 July 2018
//But Saturday afternoon, Kelsey Taylor will coach a relay race, Ahmad Rashad will direct a capture the flag game and Terraca Bobo will oversee a family field day, all in the name of preventing violence in Indianapolis.
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Faith E. Pinho, Indianapolis Star, "Amid Indianapolis' violence comes this effort to better know your neighbor," 27 June 2018
First Known Use of capture the flag
circa 1925, in the meaning defined above
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