playing field

1. 1.

   the circumstances under which competition occurs

   “the government's objective is to insure a genuinely level playing field for American industry and commerce in Europe”

   Broadercircumstance
2. 2.

   a piece of land prepared for playing a game

   “the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field”

   Synonymsathletic fieldplaying areafield

   Broadertract

   Narrowerarenaball fieldcourtfootball fieldpalestrabowling greenpitch

   Part ofstadium

   Partsmidfield

Questions about playing field

What does playing field mean?

playing field means "the circumstances under which competition occurs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for playing field?

Close synonyms include athletic 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 playing field a common word?

playing field is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.