Infield

Quick meaning: Infield is a noun meaning The area inside a racetrack or running track.

Meaning

The area inside a racetrack or running track.

More Meanings

1. A constrained scope or area.
2. (agriculture) An area to cultivate: a field
3. (baseball) The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
4. (baseball) (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
5. (transitive) To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of.
6. Toward or into the infield.
7. (cricket) The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.

Example Sentences

Jones ran out an infield single.

Let’s keep this problem in the infield.

They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.

We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.

Word Forms

• infields
• infielding
• infielded

Synonyms for infield

Depending on context, synonyms include diamond.

Antonyms for infield

Common opposites include outfield.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include diamond, outfield, grounder, grounders, inside, ringside.

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