infields

Noun

infield (plural infields)

1. The area inside a racetrack or running track.
   • We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.1929 May–October, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 20, in A Farewell to Arms, 1st British edition, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1929, →OCLC, book II, page 138
2. A constrained scope or area.
   • Let’s keep this problem in the infield.
3. An area to cultivate: a field
4. The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
   • They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.
5. (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
   • Jones ran out an infield single.
6. The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.

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