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. agricultureAn area to cultivate: a field
4. ball gamesThe 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. ball games(as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.

   Jones ran out an infield single.

6. ball gamesThe region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.

present singular third person infields · participle present infielding · participle past infielded · past infielded

1. transitiveTo enclose (a piece of land); make a field of.

comparative more infield · superlative most infield

1. Toward or into the infield.

   [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.

   2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2018