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hippodrome

[ UK /hˈɪpədɹˌə‍ʊm/ ]
[ US /ˈhɪpəˌdɹoʊm/ ]
NOUN
  1. a stadium for horse shows or horse races

How To Use hippodrome In A Sentence

  • In his gardens and chariot-racing center, called the hippodrome, almost a thousand people were brutally murdered. Raw Story
  • Amongst them was a little exhibition of mineralogy and archaeology, maps and plans, sketches and croquis, at the Hippodrome. The Land of Midian
  • Chariot races staged in the hippodrome - always a crowd-pleaser - opened the games.
  • We've studied the foundations of temples, hippodromes and harbours and our task was to rebuild them from the ruins using the latest technology.
  • The piazza, a natural hippodrome of tall, stone buildings with the high peaks of the Abruzzi soaring up behind, has been laid with hundreds of tonnes of sand and planted with greenery to mark out a track round which 'cavaliere' -- the knights -- will race with lances raised at breakneck speeds. News - chicagotribune.com
  • Their chief companions, or rather, their most intimate friends, are the fellows who hang about livery stables, betting-rooms, race-courses, and hippodromes; crop-eared grooms, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843
  • It's a view from the breakfast room of the Hotel Spectra, looking across the old Roman hippodrome to the Mosque of Sultanahmet, better known over here as the Blue Mosque. Archive 2009-05-01
  • That was the only time he penned me, -- three days of it, -- but after that the hippodrome never stopped. A RELIC OF THE PLIOCENE
  • At the hippodrome on the city's edge, thousands of cheering and whistling spectators watched about 50 riders, many in red-and-black traditional robes, compete furiously at buzkashi.
  • The historic heart of Istanbul will welcome a parade of historic racing cars on the route of the ancient hippodrome.
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