Noun
(sports, military) A place or ground used for training.
(by extension) A workplace which provides training for employees.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgSelf-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's. Mariel Hemingway
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services. Bayard Rustin
The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
All the bitchy girls in the world are just a training ground for what men can do to you. Sarah Dessen
The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work. Ben Vereen
Most of my career up until the last couple of years has basically been a training ground for me. Actors that came up in the '50s and '60s, they had the theater, and television was in its infancy. Thomas Jane