1788 W. Dyott Sept. (1907) I. 54 His Royal Highness went on shore to see a most extensive display of fireworks on the exercise ground.
1906 J. Joyce 4 Oct. (1966) II. 171 The interspaces being used as military exercise-grounds.
1930 E. Blunden viii. 103 It became an exercise-ground in which, edition by edition, its author tried fresh evolutions.