hippodrome

1 On Saturday, the last day of the Games, a crowd of about 200 has gathered at the hippodrome.

2 Races took place in the Champs de Mars, and an unsuccessful attempt was made in 1834 to arrange for a course, or “hippodrome,” as it is termed in France, at Maisons Laffitte.

3 The change of status would also not affect the World Heritage status of the historic peninsula which encompasses the Ottoman Topkapi Palace, and ancient hippodrome and the Blue Mosque, he added.

4 Witnesses to the attack near the Roman hippodrome said a man dressed in black and either bearded or with his face covered rushed at a group without warning shortly after 11 a.m. and began stabbing people indiscriminately.

5 Riding through the hippodrome towards St. Sophia, Mohammed noted the Delphic tripod with its three snakes,33 standing where Constantine the Great had placed it eleven hundred years before.

6 By poking the bull hook in and around her underarms and legs, he persuades her to make a tour of sorts around the hippodrome.

7 At the matinee I attended in November, the woman next to me sprang up before the song was even over, hollering through cupped hands as if she were at a hippodrome.

8 In the earlier event, passions felt by rival factions at the hippodrome somehow fused into a general uprising against authority.

9 We paid $10,000 for our first hippodrome tent alone, and this did not include dressing-room tents, horse tents and camp tents.

10 The feats of horsemanship performed in our circle before the log-hut doors, I have never seen surpassed at any hippodrome at home or in Paris.

11 Scenes of chariot races in a Roman hippodrome, an open-air stadium for horse racing, span across the 85-foot long mosaic.

12 It had a hippodrome, fortifications, a forum, palace, temples, amphitheatre, aqueducts, baths and workshops.

13 The hippodrome in Mali's capital Bamako, may not see million-dollar prizes but it's still a thriving tradition every Sunday.

14 The Greek hippodrome was usually set out on the slope of a hill, and the ground taken from one side served to form the embankment on the other side.

15 The remains of the ancient aqueduct, theater, hippodrome, and bathhouses make for a daylong adventure. Snorkeling or scuba diving is available in the ancient harbor through the Old Caesarea Diving Center.

16 And the channel, according to the archaeologists, was built long after the hippodrome had been repurposed as an industrial building under the Byzantine Empire and then a burial ground under the Umayyads.

17 She recognized landmarks Jason had told her about—the hippodrome, the coliseum, the temples and parks, the neighborhood of Seven Hills with its winding streets, colorful villas, and flowering gardens.

18 The hippodrome sits on a prized piece of real estate belonging to the city, and the mayor thinks it is time to open it to the public.

19 At least three towns closed schools and hundreds of people were sheltered in sport facilities and a local hippodrome, authorities said.

20 Today all that remains of Caesarea’s Augustan temple is the podium, a featureless platform that I missed altogether as I strolled from the harbor to the hippodrome.

1 竞技场

amphitheatral arenic amphitheatric amphitheatrical list park arena ring amphitheatre circus amphitheater concourse

2 剧院

house histrionic playhouse

3 马戏场

ring circus lot circle

4 赛马场

turf racetrack racecourse turfy ring stade race ground fair ground

5 音乐厅

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