athletic field

1. 1.

   a piece of land prepared for playing a game

   “the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field”

   Synonymsplaying fieldplaying areafield

   Broadertract

   Narrowerarenaball fieldcourtfootball fieldpalestrabowling greenpitch

   Part ofstadium

   Partsmidfield

Questions about athletic field

What does athletic field mean?

athletic field means "a piece of land prepared for playing a game".

What is another word for athletic field?

Close synonyms include playing field, playing area, field. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is athletic field a common word?

athletic field is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.