trainings

Instructional practice sessions

Trainings is the plural of training, used when referring to multiple distinct training sessions or programs: The company requires several trainings per year, I attended two safety trainings last month.

Some consider this usage informal or jargon, preferring "training sessions" or "training programs," but trainings has become standard in corporate, military, and educational contexts.

athletic

conditioning

Learned behavioral adaptation

drills · sessions · endurance · strength · interval · preseason · camps · repetitions · coaching · fitness

professional

workshop

Place for making or learning

compliance · orientation · development · e-learning · webinar · coursework · curriculum · skills · proficiency · upskilling

military

boot camp

Initial military instruction program

formation · march · cadence · barracks · combat · infantry · platoon · reconnaissance · exercises · basic

Categories
Opposites
structured vs. unstructured learning

trainingsself-teaching

Instructing oneself without guidance

learning by doing · trial and error · autodidacticism · osmosis · improvisation

preparation vs. performance

trainingsperformances

Staged artistic presentations

competitions · executions · deployments · real-world application · the real thing

building capacity vs. losing capacity

trainingsdetraining

Leaving a railway vehicle

atrophy · deterioration · deconditioning · decline · regression

Phrases
Family

training, retraining, detraining

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G