Sports / B1

KIT/kɪt/

Kit is a set of equipment: a first-aid kit; a tool kit; football kit (UK sports clothes). Equipment is wider; gear is informal. Kit out is a phrasal verb (kit the team out). Uncountable when it means clothing for sport (in their home kit). Do not use kit for a single screwdriver — that is a tool.

Meaning

A set of tools, clothes, or equipment for a job or activity.

Examples

• “Bring your first-aid kit on the field trip.”
• “Every lab bench has a spill kit within reach.”
• “The away kit was yellow, which is the sports-clothes sense.”

Good to know

a first-aid / tool kit; football kit (UK). Wider: equipment. Informal: gear. One tool ≠ a kit.

Near in meaning

equipment

Topics

New