Word.ws English Dictionary

red zones

red zones is the plural of red zone.

Meaning of red zone

Noun (1)

red zone (plural red zones)

  1. The area extending twenty yards from the end zone, where a team in possession of the ball is expected to score.
  2. (California) An area of a street where the curb has been painted red, indicating that stopping, standing or parking is prohibited at that spot (except, in some places, for buses).
  3. Any other area so classified.
    • Lee Joyce, who leads on track and drainage for Project Brunel, explains: "The railway saw a lot of change in a short amount of time - COVID, the Elizabeth Line coming on. We lost Red Zone access [working on tracks with trains running].2025 May 28, Paul Clifton, “Project Brunel on the right line”, in RAIL, number 1036, page 29

Noun (2)

the red zone

  1. (Australia, chiefly autism) The zone of emotional regulation that violent emotions like anger belong in.

Questions about red zones

What is red zones the plural of?
Red zones is the plural of red zone.

Words near red zones in the dictionary

  1. red won
  2. red worm
  3. red worms
  4. red yeast rice
  5. red zone
  6. red zones
  7. red, white and blue
  8. red-and-green macaw
  9. red-and-green macaws
  10. red-assed
  11. red-back

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: red zones (page history and authors); red zone (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “red zones.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/red_zones. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.