SCENE OF ACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scene of action mean? 

• SCENE OF ACTION (noun)
  The noun SCENE OF ACTION has 1 sense:

1. a playing field where sports events take place

  Familiarity information: SCENE OF ACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCENE OF ACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A playing field where sports events take place

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

arena; scene of action

Hypernyms ("scene of action" is a kind of...):

athletic field; field; playing area; playing field (a piece of land prepared for playing a game)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scene of action"):

circus (an arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent)

 Context examples 

So far I had got when we went to visit the scene of action.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But my aunt, suddenly descrying among them the young malefactor who was the donkey's guardian, and who was one of the most inveterate offenders against her, though hardly in his teens, rushed out to the scene of action, pounced upon him, captured him, dragged him, with his jacket over his head, and his heels grinding the ground, into the garden, and, calling upon Janet to fetch the constables and justices, that he might be taken, tried, and executed on the spot, held him at bay there.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And now here is my pocket Petrarch, and not another word shall I say of this case until we are on the scene of action.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In two hours we must be on the scene of action.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)