infield

noun infields

1. The area inside a racetrack or running track. We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.
2. A constrained scope or area. Let’s keep this problem in the infield.
3. An area to cultivate: a field
4. The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base. They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.
5. (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield. Jones ran out an infield single.
6. The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.

Opposite: outfield

verb infields · infielding · infielded

1. transitive To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of.

adverb more infield · most infield

1. Toward or into the infield. [Huw] Jones was also involved in the second try, which started when [Finn] Russell received the ball near his own 22 and immediately detected that England’s defence was narrow, with Jonny May having strayed infield.