home game
noun
sports
: a game played in a team's own stadium, park, etc.
The team has done much better in its home games than on the road.
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Additional theme nights will follow throughout the regular season, including a December home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
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Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2025
With a home game against Nebraska and traveling to Rutgers to close the regular season, Penn State's hopes to go to a bowl remain alive.
—CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
Sacramento State men’s basketball plays a home game against the Presbyterian Blue Hose, a Division I school in Clinton, South Carolina.
—Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Tomas Hertl and Ivan Barbashev scored goals and Carl Lindbom finished with 17 saves for Vegas, which lost its third straight home game and fell to 2-4-2 over its last eight games.
—Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
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Jessica Lynch, Billboard, 16 Nov. 2025
With a home game against Nebraska and traveling to Rutgers to close the regular season, Penn State's hopes to go to a bowl remain alive.
—CBS News, 16 Nov. 2025
Sacramento State men’s basketball plays a home game against the Presbyterian Blue Hose, a Division I school in Clinton, South Carolina.
—Marcus Smith, Sacbee.com, 13 Nov. 2025
Tomas Hertl and Ivan Barbashev scored goals and Carl Lindbom finished with 17 saves for Vegas, which lost its third straight home game and fell to 2-4-2 over its last eight games.
—Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
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“Home game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/home%20game. Accessed 23 Nov. 2025.
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