"tryout" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used as a noun to refer to an event or test used to decide who is the best person or team for a particular job or activity. For example, "The tryout was very challenging, but I am confident that I will succeed."
Upshaw played only one year of high school football, but he earned an athletic scholarship to Texas College of Arts and Industries (now Texas A&M University Kingsville) after an impressive tryout for the football team.
After a helter-skelter tryout, the show opened in New York City at the 63rd Street Music Hall (renamed Daly's 63rd Street Theatre the following year) on May 23 , 1921 as the first all-black musical to be presented on Broadway in more than a decade.
Then he played in the Eastern Basketball Association, which led to a tryout for the Virginia Squires (at that time the NBA required that players be out of high school for four years before entry into the league).
At age 24, with no recent organized football experience outside of games played with his army base team, Lane walked into the offices of the Los Angeles Rams in 1952 and asked for a tryout.
She did skate in the 2004 world championship (after a mandatory tryout ordered by the Russian ice-skating federation), but she was less than fit and finished ninth.
After an unsuccessful tryout with the Cincinnati Reds, he moved to Los Angeles at age 21 to pursue an acting career.
Then, last May a friend of Howard's received the opportunity of a WWE tryout in London.
During its Boston tryout the show's bittersweet portrayal of marriage ("It's the concerts you enjoy together, neighbours you annoy together, children you destroy together... .....) did not find favour, and Robert's climactic song, "Happily Ever After" was considered nihilistic and anti-marriage.
"He asked to stay at my place," recalls Howard, "So I sent them an email and I managed to get a tryout sorted out too".
Talk story about the track-and-field Olympic tryout in N.Y the 10,000 metre walking race.
He said that any player who gets cut from the Mets is welcome to a free tryout with the Doubleday softball team.
