Meaning

The area inside a racetrack or running track..

Definitions by Sense

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

Example Sentences

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

Let’s keep this problem in the infield.

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

Jones ran out an infield single.

[Huw] Jones was also involved in the second try, which started when [Finn] Russell received the ball near his own 22 and immediately detected that England’s defence was narrow, with Jonny May having strayed infield.

Word Forms

• infields
• infielding
• infielded
• more infield
• most infield

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When Should You Use Infield?

Use infield when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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