football fields
Hundred-yard turfs
Football fields is a unit of measurement in American informal speech, used to make large distances or areas comprehensible: The ship was three football fields long.
A football field is roughly 100 yards or 91 meters, a familiar reference point for American audiences.
The phrase appears almost exclusively in journalism and casual explanation, rarely in technical contexts.
- turfGrass-covered earth surface
- goalpostScoring frame for kicks
- crowdLarge public gathering
- Friday night lightsHigh school football evening
- kickFoot-delivered strike
soccer fields · gridiron · fifty yard line · infill · yard lines · snap · endzone · pylons · cricket grounds · dimensions · hash marks · sideline · two minute warning · sports fields · floodlights · stadium · grandstand · artificial turf
- parksplayground, Hyde Park, Yellowstone, Grant Park, picnic table
- HeartlandMidwest, Great Plains, cornfields, farms, farmhouses
football fieldsbaseball diamonds
Infield playing areas
basketball courts · tennis courts · ice rinks · swimming pools · hockey rinks
football fieldsgrains of sand
pinheads · atoms · molecules · nanometers · microns
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