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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indoor
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an indoor game
▪ There is a hall for indoor games and social functions.
an indoor toilet
▪ Many cottages lacked a bathroom or indoor toilet.
indoor arena
▪ an indoor arena
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
arena
▪ The majestic indoor arena holds its premier four-day championship show from Thursday 23 to Sunday 26 September.
championship
▪ The Volvo Cup is the world indoor championship, but Del Mar's new stadium has been built without a roof.
▪ His club team Norton, near Stoke in the Midlands, won the world indoor championship contested by squads from 26 countries.
plant
▪ Along with all the other indoor plants that fern received lavish treatment.
▪ Although growing well under water, they adapt to normal soil conditions and can be cultivated in flowerpots as indoor plants.
▪ Be sure to harden off very thoroughly, as they are usually sold as indoor plants.
▪ Few indoor plants can match the collecting urge that cacti are capable of inspiring.
▪ Prince's Garden Centre will stock a wide range of horticultural goods, with special emphasis on top-quality indoor plants.
▪ Many of them are cultivated in greenhouses and as indoor plants.
pool
▪ Our hotel had an indoor pool, a nightclub and good food - notably, reindeer stew with cranberry sauce.
▪ Seven purpose-built conference suits, exclusive health club and heated indoor pool and gymnasium.
▪ The town of Andover had no legal requirement for a fence around the indoor pool.
▪ The hotel has a new indoor pool leading directly on to the well-kept gardens with table tennis and sun-bathing lawns.
▪ Within the park there is a large swimming pool, a separate children's pool, and an indoor pool.
▪ Gymnasium, sauna, steam room, beauty salon, indoor pool.
▪ When it rained they played squash or swam in the indoor pool.
tennis
▪ Alternatives to skiing include a leisure pool, curling and skating on the nearby lake, indoor tennis and sleigh rides.
▪ Senators have free use of indoor tennis and basketball courts that private clubs charge $ 1, 500 a year for..
▪ He oversees an Arena Football team and an indoor tennis team.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
indoor lighting
indoor soccer
▪ The hotel has a heated indoor swimming pool.
▪ This year, the world indoor tennis championship will take place in Paris.
▪ Traditionally, markets were held outdoors, but many cities in Britain now have indoor markets.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indoor

Indoor \In"door`\, a. Done or being within doors; within a house or institution; domestic; as, indoor work.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indoor

1711, from within door (opposed to outdoor); the form indoors is first attested 1799 in George Washington's writings.

Wiktionary
indoor

a. Situated in, or designed to be used in, or carried on within the interior of a building.

WordNet
indoor
  1. adj. located, suited for, or taking place within a building; "indoor activities for a rainy day"; "an indoor pool" [syn: indoor(a), inside] [ant: outdoor(a)]

  2. within doors; "an indoor setting"

Wikipedia
Indoor

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Usage examples of "indoor".

Indoor: discussion in tepid security of unsolved historical and criminal problems: lecture of unexpurgated exotic erotic masterpieces: house carpentry with toolbox containing hammer, awl nails, screws, tintacks, gimlet, tweezers, bullnose plane and turnscrew.

In fact they were soon to become an item around Shade Creek, out to all hours among the milling sleepless of the town, along the smoky indoor promenades lit by shadow-patched fluorescent bulbs, across covered bridges lined with shops and stalls, beneath the many clockfaces beaming from overhead, past Thanatoid dogs lounging in groups, who had learned how to give up wagging their tails and now gestured meaningfully with them instead.

As their limousine pulled into line to await its turn, Kit imagined the scene at the start of the Mauve Decade when the Jerome had been modern and new, when its Eastlake decor had been the height of fashion, when its elevator, its electric lights, its hot and cold running water, its indoor plumbing, and its French chef were the talk of the town.

She took off wet boots, and the lining made of felted mammoth wool, and changed into one of her dry outfits and the soft indoor footwear Talut had shown her how to make.

So they were put together in beerhalls, shops, schools, castles, farmhouses all around Nordhausen here, any indoor lab space the guidance people could find.

If the atmosphere in the room had gotten any steamier, we probably would have had an indoor tornado.

Samuel Rogers,--their countenances radiant with developed intelligence, their complexions, their figures, their movements, all showing that they have had plenty of outdoor as well as indoor exercise, and have lived well in all respects, one would like to read on the wall of the hall where they are assembled,-- Siste, viator!

Although adult-only banquets usually start at eight, the over-scheduled Elk Park Prep fencers had Saturday morning commitments to indoor soccer and club basketball.

Hamid-Jones drifted past the ravaged heath of an indoor golf course, a drained and cracked pool with a deflated rubber raft resting on the bottom, rows of steam baths with their fixtures ripped out, demolished tennis courts with frayed nets still hanging.

Capitalist owns textile company and makes huge amount of money and lives across the river in big house with Frigidaire and GE washing machine and Packard and Chris-Craft motor yacht while employing hundreds of workers to whom he pays pitiful wages, all the while thinking it perfectly normal that they should live in hideously filthy tenements with no running water and no indoor plumbing and not enough money to feed their children.

Hatching from their black eggs, they detected the dry, indoor air and the false sun of the lightbulbs, and began to shrivel up.

He had found it was not as warm on the floor in the open area of the hearth as it was on the enclosed sleeping platforms, and he slept in his indoor clothes, which left them rumpled.

The pits and revetments and shelters built around the terraces of the range at least gave the illusion of somewhat greater security than you felt when standing around out in the open, and the meeting quickly moved to a relatively indoor location.

Anyway, he worked mostly on the indoor environment, not the crazy schemes for modifying the planet itself.

It reminded me of the times I had to dance around the room with an indoor antenna in my hand so my stepdad could follow the horse racing.