sign up for meaning and examples
2025-09-29Meaning
- Sign up for means to officially register, enroll, or agree to participate in an activity, service, course, or event.
Grammar and Usage
- Part of speech: Phrasal verb
- Pattern:
sign up for + noun
- Used with objects such as classes, events, services, memberships, activities.
- The subject is the person enrolling or registering.
Examples of sentence structure
- Somebody signs up for something
e.g., "She signed up for the yoga class."
Common Phrases
- sign up for a class
- sign up for a course
- sign up for a membership
- sign up for a newsletter
- sign up for military service
Collocations
- verb + noun: sign up for school, sign up for training, sign up for lessons
- noun + verb: participants sign up for an event
Examples
- I decided to sign up for a Spanish course this semester.
- Many people signed up for the marathon in Tokyo.
- You should sign up for the workshop before it’s full.
- She signed up for free online classes during the summer.
- He signed up for military service after finishing high school.
- We signed up for the gym membership together.
- Did you already sign up for the volunteer program?
- Thousands of users have signed up for the new streaming service.
- enroll in
- register for
- apply for
- join
Antonym
- withdraw from
- opt out of
- cancel