field house

noun

1

: a building at an athletic field for housing equipment or providing dressing facilities

2

: a building enclosing a large area suitable for various forms of athletics and usually providing seats for spectators

Examples of field house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Besides football, the field house will host the new flag football team, soccer and track and field. — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 Jan. 2026

Williams re-emerged from the field house and was running lightly on the side with a member of the training staff watching closely. — Jerry McDonald, Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2026

Beam was murdered last week, shot in the Laney College field house in Oakland on Thursday. — Sports Columnist, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Nov. 2025

Sanders told players what happened to Mannon at Lake Travis before the new kid walked into their Vipers field house for the first time. — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 22 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1892, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for field house

• alehouse
• almshouse
• backhouse
• baghouse
• bakehouse
• bathhouse
• bauhaus
• blockhouse
• boathouse
• brewhouse
• bunkhouse
• clubhouse