WordNet
n. a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" [syn: playing field, athletic field, field]
Usage examples of "playing area".
Around the inner surface of the sphere, the eliminated players cluster in ones and threes, bright icons at the corners of her vision, redetermining the playing area.
The air conditioning systems that handled the playing area and pretty much everything save the locker rooms had likewise been shut down, giving the Dome a warm closeness that made it easy to remember we were really just standing in a big hole in the ground.
From that moment, each individual game piece remained on the same spot, but its abrupt changes of state contributed to waves of black and white that crisscrossed the playing area with great speed and hypnotic complexity.
The dunes here are set back from the shore, perhaps thirty yards inland, and act as a barrier between the shore and the playing area.
Then, moving it smartly across the red-bordered mat that outlined the boundaries of the playing area, she caught the discs in the basket.
A public footpath wound its way around the playing area of the golf course and up into the hills.
Superior smile back in place, Ohlmin walked over to Karl's playing area, taking up a position at the far corner of the square.
Lola's step quickened--even she could feel the excitement There were a pair of guards in Legion uniform flanking the doorway to the elite playing area, but Lola whisked right past them.
I watched as the men setting the field scored a deep line in the uneven turf at either end of the playing area.