WordNet
n. a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" [syn: playing field, playing area, field]
Usage examples of "athletic field".
Inge Sawatzki, for example, has often revived the tired victor Matern and nursed him back to health, which is just what she does now that the wounds inflicted on the Unterrath athletic field are in need of being dressed.
In the nationals at Sydney Athletic Field a month later, defending her 200m title, Cathy showed she had courage if not fitness.
For one of the rare times of his life off the athletic field, he was perspiring.
That he, Alexandros, whose joy lay in the chorus and not on the athletic field, was unworthy of this gift of beauty.
Taking a different route from the one I'd chosen the previous night, we proceeded along a blacktop road, across an athletic field gone to weeds, across a dusty parade ground, between ranks of badly weathered barracks, through a residential neighborhood of Dead Town that I had never explored, where the cottages and bungalows were identical to those on other streets, and overland again, to another service area.
The university was close below us, and we found the athletic field where McGovern was waiting.
One afternoon in the spring of 1929 I wandered out to the athletic field to find a group of my classmates getting up a game of baseball.
The athletic field was just a few feet from him, and, sitting beyond that open space, barely visible in the darkness and mist, was the school itself, illuminated only by a couple of dim security lamps.
Benjamin Tyson began the last leg of his run, across the large open athletic field that lay behind the post headquarters.
Ben Cady had black eyes and black brows and black hair, and when not bursting from his intensity on the athletic field it burst from his being in a manner that no one could fail to understand.
Kitty could hear whooping and cheering coming from a football game on the athletic field.
Austin guessed that the area had once been an athletic field used for R&.
Behind them, in a wide open area that undoubtedly once served as an athletic field, was a large airship similar to the one he had seen taking off when he was in the swamp.
It could have been a particle accelerator, a raceway, or an athletic field.
Austin guessed that the area had once been an athletic field used for R&R by visiting submarine crews.