- Cricket field (with the cricket pitch in the centre)
- Kabaddi pitch
- Velodrome (track cycling)
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A pitch or a sports ground is an outdoor playing area for various sports. The term pitch is most commonly used in British English, while the comparable term in Australian, American and Canadian English is playing field or sports field.
For most sports the official term is field of play, although this is not regularly used by those outside refereeing/umpiring circles.[ citation needed ] The field of play generally includes out-of-bounds areas that a player is likely to enter while playing a match, such as the area beyond the touchlines in association football and rugby or the sidelines in American and Canadian football, or the "foul territory" in baseball.
The surface of a pitch is most commonly composed of sod (grass), but may also be artificial turf, sand, clay, gravel, concrete, or other materials. A playing field on ice may be referred to as a rink, for example an ice hockey rink, although rink may also refer to the entire building or, in the sport of curling, to either the building or a particular team.
In the sport of cricket, the cricket pitch refers not to the entire field of play, but to the section of the field on which batting and bowling take place in the centre of the field. The pitch is prepared differently from the rest of the field, to provide a harder surface for bowling.
A pitch is often a regulation space, as in an association football pitch.
The term level playing field is also used metaphorically to mean fairness in non-sporting human activities such as business where there are notional winners and losers. [1]
Sport | Shape | Field length | Total length | Width | Total width | Number of players [2] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Badminton (singles) | Rectangular | 13.40 m | 17.40 m | 5.18 m | 8.18 m | 1 |
Badminton (doubles) | Rectangular | 13.40 m | 17.40 m | 6.10 m | 9.10 m | 2 |
Baseball | Diamond | 92-128 m | - | 137-150 m [3] | - | 9 |
Baseball5 | Square | 21.00 m | - | 21.00 m | - | 5 |
Softball [4] | Diamond | 61-67 m | - | 50+ m | - | 9 |
Basketball (FIBA) | Rectangular | 28.00 m | - | 15.00 m | - | 5 |
Basketball (NBA) | Rectangular | 28.70 m | - | 15.20 m | - | 5 |
Basketball (3x3) | Rectangular | 11.00 m | - | 15.00 m | - | 3 |
Cricket | Oval | 119-164 m [5] | - | 119-164 m | - | 11 |
Indoor cricket | Rectangular | 30.00 m | - | 12.00 m | - | 6 |
Association football | Rectangular | 100-110 m | - | 64-75 m | - | 11 |
Futsal | Rectangular | 38-42 m | - | 20-25 m | - | 5 |
Rugby union | Rectangular | 94-100 m | 106-144 m | 68-70 m | - | 15 |
Rugby league | Rectangular | 100.00 m | 112-122 m | 68.00 m | - | 13 |
American football | Rectangular | 91.80 m | 110.00 m | 48.75 m | - | 11 |
Indoor American football | Rounded rectangular | 45.90 m | 61.00 m | 26.00 m | - | - |
Flag football [6] | Rectangular | 64.00 m | - | 22.86 m | - | 5 [6] |
Canadian football | Rectangular | 101.00 m | 137.00 m | 59.00 m | - | 12 |
Australian rules football | Oval | 135-185 m | - | 110-155 m | - | 18 |
Gaelic football | Rectangular | 130–145 m | - | 80–90 m | - | 15 |
Handball | Rectangular | 40.00 m | - | 20.00 m | - | 7 |
Field hockey | Rectangular | 91.40 m | - | 55.00 m | - | 11 |
Indoor hockey | Rectangular | 36-44 m | - | 18-22 m | - | 6 |
Ice hockey (IIHF) | Rounded rectangular | 61.00 m | - | 30.00 m | - | 6 |
Ice hockey (NHL) | Rounded rectangular | 61.00 m | - | 26.00 m | - | 6 |
Bandy | Rectangular | 100-110 m | - | 60-65 m | - | 11 |
Kabaddi (standard) [7] | Rectangular | 13.00 m | - | 10.00 m | - | 7 |
Kabaddi (circle-style) [8] | Circle | 44.00 m | - | 44.00 m | - | 8 |
Kho kho | Rectangular | 27.00 m | 30.00 m | 16.00 m | 19.00 m | 9 |
Kho kho (Ultimate Kho Kho) [9] | Rectangular | 22.00 m | 26.00 m | 16.00 m | 20.00 m | 7 |
Field lacrosse | Rectangular | 100.00 m | - | 55.00 m | - | 10 |
Box lacrosse | Rounded rectangular | 55-61 m | - | 24-28 m | - | 6 |
Short track speed skating | Oval | 60.00 m | - | 30.00 m | - | - |
Long track speed skating | Oval | 178.00 m | - | 66.00 m | - | - |
Swimming (Olympic) | Rectangular | 50.00 m | - | 25.00 m | - | - |
Swimming (short course) | Rectangular | 25.00 m | - | 20.00 m | - | - |
Tennis (singles) | Rectangular | 23.77 m | 37.00 m | 8.23 m | 18.00 m | 1 |
Tennis (doubles) | Rectangular | 23.77 m | 37.00 m | 10.93 m | 18.00 m | 2 |
Track and field (indoor) | Oval | 90.03 m | - | 45.78 m | - | - |
Track and field (outdoor) | Oval | 176.91 m | - | 92.52 m | - | - |
Ultimate | Rectangular | 64.00 m | 110.00 m | 37.00 m | - | 7 |
Volleyball | Rectangular | 18.00 m | 24-31 m | 9.00 m | 15-19 m | 6 |
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The NCAA recommends that the fence should be a minimum of [...] 230 [feet] in center field if the fence is 4 feet high. USSSA recommends that the fence be [...] 200-225 for 15U through the Open Division.
Teams compete on a rectangular 25-yard by 50-yard field, with an additional 10–yard end zone. [i.e. an end zone at each end, so 70 yards total length]
The dimensions of the playing area vary for men and women. It is 33ft x 43ft for the former
In the circle style format, the field is a circle with a radius of 22 meters [i.e. diameter of 44 meters] which is divided into two equal halves by a mid-line.